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DIVORCE, n. L. See Divert.

1. A legal dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, or the separation of husband and wife by a judicial sentence. This is properly called a divorce, and called technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
2. The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband, a mensa et thoro.
3. Separation disunion of things closely united.
4. The sentence or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
5. The cause of any penal separation.

The long divorce of steel falls on me.

DIVORCE,

1. To dissolve the marriage contract, and thus to separate husband and wife.
2. To separate, as a married woman from the bed and board of her husband.
3. To separate or disunite things closely connected to force asunder.
4. To take away to put away.
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Entry for 'Divorce'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​d/divorce.html.
 
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