divorcement

noun — 2 senses

divorcement

noun

Etymology From divorce + -ment.

1

Obsolete Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.

  • [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.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
2

Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Figuratively Complete detachment or disunion.

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