dissever
/dɪ(s)ˈsɛvə
/verb [with object] rare
Divide or sever (something): a European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature...
- Uncannily, Wakefield ‘had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself from the world - to vanish - to give up his place and privileges with living men, without being admitted among the dead’.
- There were a lot of the fun things to be dissevered.
- It made sense to her, considering that most of her friends, besides Evie, were men and she didn't want to be dissevered from her closest acquaintances.
Derivatives
disseverance
/ noun ...- The relation of disseverance and unification is itself distorted.
- The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
disseverment
- This has been accomplished by design through our government schools and the incremental disseverment of the People's sovereignty.
- This is an instance of a very early stage of the apparent disseverment of an atoll.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'separate'): from Old French dessevrer, from late Latin disseparare, from dis- (expressing intensive force) + Latin separare 'to separate'.