Meanings
noundisseverment (countable and uncountable, plural disseverments)
plural disseverments
- countableuncountabledisseverance
I could no more consent to the halving of that dollar , than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the disseverment of the child of her bowels
1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC
Origin
Compare Old French dessevrement.
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APA
disseverment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disseverment
MLA
“disseverment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disseverment. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disseverment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disseverment.
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