divorcement

English

Etymology

From divorce +‎ -ment.

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Noun

divorcement (countable and uncountable, plural divorcements)

1. (obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage.
   • 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:

     [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.

2. (figuratively, psychology) Complete detachment or disunion.