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Divorce
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
(n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
(2):
(n.) To make away; to put away.
(3):
(n.) To separate or disunite; to sunder.
(4):
(n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
(5):
(n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband - divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."
(6):
(n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
(7):
(n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.
(8):
(n.) That which separates.
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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Divorce'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/divorce.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Divorce'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/divorce.html. 1828.
