Chatham next touched on the great question of disseverance and independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Her most famous statement was a declaration of total disseverance, a rejection of all bonding.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM] Reference

The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

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 his clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

Across a land aquake with sharp disseverance hung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

The want of harmony in taste, feeling and character, is no reason for disseverance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand but Not the Heart] Reference

Isolation, disseverance, absolute divorcement from our fellow creatures, is an impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference

But she did not the less feel how terrible would be the effect of any disseverance from Lady Lufton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

History does not tell us to what depths of degradation this disseverance of all family ties reduced the women of his household, who could neither inherit house or land.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

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 a bishop and his clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

I object, sir, to this disseverance between the sexes, and I object to the Senate of the United States giving its sanction in advance or in any way to this character of legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference

I mean the purity of the upper spiritual atmosphere in which she habitually dwelt; the absolute disseverance of her moral as well as her intellectual nature from all those lower thoughts as well as lower passions which smirch the human soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Remember]

The sacred games and festivals took hold of the Greek mind by so great a variety of feelings as to counterbalance in a high degree the political disseverance, and to keep alive among their widespread cities, in the midst of constant jealousy and frequent quarrel, a feeling of brotherhood and congenial sentiment such as must otherwise have died away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

"incompatibility" are sufficient to secure the law's disseverance of the marriage tie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference

7 There seem to have been two reasons for the disseverance of Ker's connections with the University after a year and half of service: first, his inability to cope with the "unruly" spirit of the student body and, second, the fact that he had developed heterodox political and religious principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harris Letters] Reference

At luncheon one day at that time he said, "If I were to tell the people of America what we have had to stand for the last year there would be such a wave of indignation roll from Maine to California that I would not myself be responsible for the result; but the situation has inclined me more and more to believe that the peace of the world and the welfare of humanity rest with people who have the English speech, and that the American policy and British policy should be one, which should draw us together and which should not tend towards any disseverance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [British and American Relations] Reference

He advocated strongly the disseverance of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America — Volume 1] Reference