divorce
/dɪˈvoɹs/ noun B2- The legal dissolution of a marriage. · Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
- A separation of connected things. · The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
- The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
Plural divorces
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The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Moscow and Leipsic, while the women commented on the divorce of Josephine.
I could only check it by finding if she had, indeed, instituted divorce proceedings against her husband at or about the time of the tragedy.
I did not know about a projected divorce between herself and her husband.
Holmes,” she said, “this man had offered me marriage on condition that I could get a divorce from my husband.
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