Meanings
noundivorcement (countable and uncountable, plural divorcements)
plural divorcements
- countableobsoleteuncountableDivorce; 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 - countablefigurativelyuncountablehuman sciencesComplete detachment or disunion.
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divorcement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/divorcement
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