put asunder

verb

To sunder; disjoin; separate.

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Meanings

verbput asunder (third-person singular simple present puts asunder, present participle putting asunder, simple past and past participle put asunder)

present singular third person puts asunder · participle present putting asunder

  1. ambitransitiveTo 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
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    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

    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

Origin

From put + asunder.

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