divorcement

English

Etymology

From divorce +‎ -ment.

Noun

divorcement (plural divorcements)

1. (obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 91:

     [W]hen a man seduces a woman, […] the man should be legally obliged to maintain the woman and her children, unless adultery, a natural divorcement, abrogated the law.

2. (figuratively, psychology) Complete detachment or disunion.