sundering

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noun

The act by which something is sundered.

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verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sunder
nounsundering (plural sunderings)

plural sunderings

  1. The act by which something is sundered.

    The sunderings of love affairs

    1979 August 4, Rudy Kikel, “Howard's Way”, in Gay Community News, page 19
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    Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings, tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.

    2002, Mike Crang, Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space, page 178

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