divulsionn.
/dɪˈvʌlʃən//dʌɪˈvʌlʃən/ The action of tearing, pulling, or plucking asunder; the condition of being torn apart (from something); a rending asunder, violent separation, laceration. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [noun]
tatteringc1380
rendinga1398
rifta1400
rentingc1405
ripping1463
direption1483
outriving1488
dilaceration1545
raving1553
dilaniation1569
divulsion1603
discission1628
discerption1645
tear1666
rent1753
shredding1954
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1340 That natures parmanent and divine should cohere unto themselves inseparably, and avoid as much as is possible all distraction and divulsion.
1605 G. Powel Refut. Epist. Apologeticall 40 It..causeth diuulsion and distraction of affections.
1624 T. Scott tr. Aphorismes of State sig. A2v The divulsion of the Easterne Empire, from the Westerne.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 137 Others [islands] are made by divulsion from some continent.
1885 G. H. Taylor Pelvic & Hernic Therapeut. 80 To sever such adhesions by sudden, forcible divulsion, is painful.
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