Read full poem →Say March may wed September,
And time divorce regret;
But not that you remember,
Dictionary Entry
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
In a Sentence
“Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. divorcerate divorcerates divorce
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Poetry examples for “divorce”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Which ticenHed either peace or force.
To tinder the uojusc divorce.
Yet Btill the nuns hia right debarred,
Read full poem →Which licensed either peace or force.
To hinder the unjust divorce.
Yet still the nuns ^is right debarred.
Read full poem →To her whose nature’s lighter fall
Made no divorce of heart from brain.
Read full poem →forcefully stated, "My conviction is that the aim of preaching - no less than singing - is
God-exalting worship The aim of preaching is to deal with divorce worshipfiilly, and
to deal with teenagers worshipfully, and to deal with anger worshipfiilly Preaching exalts
Read full poem →The traiterous banke to gape, and let her in,
She rusheth violently, and doth divorce
Her from her native, and her long-kept course, 30
Read full poem →Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
If one might, death were no divorce.
Alas! as well as other princes, we
Read full poem →Royalist defeat
at Marston of Divorce,
Areopagitica, On
Read full poem →1700, when he defended the Earl of Anglesea against his lady, afterwards
Duchess of Buckinghamshire, who sued for a divorce and obtained it.