divorcement
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divorcement (countable and uncountable, plural divorcements)
- (obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
- [W]hen a man seduces a woman, […] the man should be legally obliged to maintain the woman and her children, unless adultery, a natural divorcement, abrogated the law.
- (figuratively, psychology) Complete detachment or disunion.
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