US /dɪˈvɔrsmənt/ UK /dɪˈvɔːsmənt/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    the act of divorcing or separating; dissolution of marriage

    The poem mourns the divorcement of the soul from the body.

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1 noun · the act of divorcing or... divorceseparationdissolutiondisunionsundering
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Related forms divorcedivorceedivorced

Etymology

From divorce + -ment; ultimately from Latin divortium ('separation'), from divertere ('to turn aside'), from dis- ('apart') + vertere ('to turn').

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