divorce
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1. divorce - Noun
2. divorce - Verb
3. Divorce - Proper noun
Meaning
A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."
The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
Separation; disunion of things closely united.
That which separates.
To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
To separate or disunite; to sunder.
To make away; to put away.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
The name of love's finance is divorce.
Divorce a young woman and you make another man happy.
The betrothed of good is evil; the betrothed of life is death; the betrothed of love is divorce.