put asunder

verb

put asunder

verb

Etymology From put + asunder.

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Ambitransitive To sunder; disjoin; separate.

What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 10:9:
But when husband Hilton began to play too many games involving such expressions as "snake eyes," she fled into the arms of Michael Wilding, a handsome English prince who had himself been married once and put asunder but who was still in fine shape.1962 April 13, LIFE:

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Luther touched on an additional argument that when a Christian magistrate "puts asunder" a marriage, he is in fact operating as God, since he is God's vice-regent.2002, John Witte, Law and Protestantism:

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