sejunct

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UK/sɪˈd͡ʒʌŋkt/

adjective

Separate; separated.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivesejunct (comparative more sejunct, superlative most sejunct)

comparative more sejunct · superlative most sejunct

  1. rareSeparate; separated.

    ‘Nay, not so far – [...] not so far, he saith, do I pronounce the gods to be sejunct and alienate from us, as to think that not even our prayers can reach them.’

    1909, TR Glover, Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire
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    Now that mechanical science has realised his ancient dreams of flight and sejunct communication, he is the advance guard of the psychologist on the watch for new emotions, new vibrations sensible to faculties as yet ill understood.

    1912, Ezra Pound, Selected Prose 1909-1965, The Wisdom of Poetry

    images, divine and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence conducive or eases issue in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her thereto to lie in, her term up.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinsēiūnctus
  2. Englishsejunct

From Latin sēiūnctus, past participle of sēiungō (“separate”); from sē (“without”) + iungō (“to join”).

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APA

sejunct. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sejunct

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Chicago

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