dissever
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From Anglo-Norman deseverer, Old French dessevrer, from Latin dissēperāre, from dis- + sēparāre.
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dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)
- To separate, split apart.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:
- Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:
- To divide into separate parts.
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
