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See also:divorcé

English

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Etymology

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Derived fromOld Frenchdivorce, fromLatindīvortium, fromdīvertere(“to turn aside”), fromdī-(“apart”) +vertere(“to turn”); seeverse.

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Noun

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divorce (countable anduncountable,pluraldivorces)

  1. Thelegaldissolution of amarriage.
    Richard obtained adivorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
  2. Aseparation ofconnected things.
    The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was adivorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      The great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. Thisdivorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully
    • c.1599,William Shakespeare,Henry V, act 5, scene 2:
      To makedivorce of their incorporate league
  3. (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
  4. (obsolete) That which separates.
    • c.1613,William Shakespeare,John Fletcher,Henry VIII, act 2, scene 1:
      Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the longdivorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.

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Translations

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legal dissolution of a marriage
separation of connected things

Verb

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divorce (third-person singular simple presentdivorces,present participledivorcing,simple past and past participledivorced)

  1. (transitive) Tolegallydissolve amarriage between two people.
    A ship captain can marry couples, but cannotdivorce them.
  2. (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
    Lucydivorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
  3. (intransitive) Toobtain a legal divorce.
    Edna and Simondivorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
  4. (transitive) Toseparate something that was connected.
    The radical group voted todivorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
    • c.1601–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv],page269:
      He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuatebrall, soules and bodies hath hediuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.

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Translations

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legally dissolve a marriage
end one's own marriage
separate something that was connected
obtain a legal divorce
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Etymology 1

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Derived fromLatindīvortium.

Noun

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divorce m (pluraldivorces)

  1. divorce
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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divorce

  1. inflection ofdivorcer:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative
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