Word Direct Answers

What does "divorce" mean?

Divorce: The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Separation; disunion of things closely united. To make divorce of their incorporate league. Shak.
  2. 3.That which separates. [Obs.] Shak. Bill of divorce. See under Bill.
  3. 4.To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
  4. 5.To separate or disunite; to sunder. It [a word] was divorced from its old sense. Earle.
  5. 6.To make away; to put away. Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities. Shak.

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