Noun
The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThese are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. Johan Huizinga
nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before. Vitruvius
If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution. Carl Sandburg
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die. Marcus Aurelius
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements. Marcus Aurelius