sejunction

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sejunctio. See sejoin, sejunct.

Noun[edit]

sejunction (countable and uncountable, plural sejunctions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
    • 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
      The constitution of that people was made by a sejunction and separation of them from all other nations on the earth: and this began in Abraham []
  2. (psychology) An interruption of the continuity of association-complexes which leads to a breaking up of the personality.