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The act of breaking up or separating into parts.

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  • Chatham next touched on the great question of disseverance and independence.
  • Her most famous statement was a declaration of total disseverance, a rejection of all bonding.
  • The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
  • They did hate each other, and this hatred had, at one time, almost produced an absolute disseverance of even the courtesies which are so necessary between the bishop and...
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