单词 | divorce-court |
释义 | > as lemmasdivorce-court attributive, as divorce-court, etc. ΚΠ a1806 Horsley Speech Adultery Bill (R.) Expatiating..upon..the perversion as well as the abuse of many divorce-bills which had passed the legislature. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 40/1 Divorce bills have not improperly been called the privilege of the rich. 1891 Law Times 92 104/2 A point of Divorce law and practice. 1905 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 57 Is it an ill thing that the newspapers should publish detailed reports of divorce-suits? 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. v. 272 My divorce case..was due to be heard at about the same time. 1955 M. Gluckman Custom & Confl. Afr. iii. 79 Social factors and not only personal disharmonies may control divorce-rates in Western society. 1960 Spectator 23 Sept. 444 Where people aren't brittle and promiscuous and divorce-prone. < as lemmas |
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