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disjointure en · NOUN

Etymology

From disjoint + -ure.

Meanings

1. An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.
   • Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense. 2018, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World:
   • To distinguish between the two opposing possibilities of this disjointure, or disjunction – between 'injustice' and the opening to the other – a deconstructive move becomes necessary. 2016, Carolyn D'Cruz, Identity Politics in Deconstruction, page 81:
   • With Henry's divorce and the creation of an autonomous Church of England, Italian intercourse with England entered into a period of disjointure that would continue, except for a brief revival under Mary, .through the end of Elizabeth's reign. 2005, Michael Wyatt, The Italian Encounter with Tudor England, page 65:

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