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divorcement en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English divorce Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English divorcement From divorce + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
   • [W]hen a man seduces a woman, […] the man should be legally obliged to maintain the woman and her children, unless adultery, a natural divorcement, abrogated the law. 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Complete detachment or disunion.

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