Word Finder - divorce

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The legal dissolution of a marriage.

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Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.

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A separation of connected things.

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The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.

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That which separates.

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To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

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A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.

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To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.

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Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.

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To obtain a legal divorce.

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Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.

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To separate something that was connected.

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The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.

The next day he urged upon the House the divorce of the queen.

Faust is a divorce lawyer.

He hadn't been considering divorce before, but now she had put it in his mind.

Did all people feel this way when they got a divorce?

Until 1905 the only grounds for an absolute divorce were 1 Under the Constitution of 1776 senators were elected by counties, one for each county, and representatives also by counties, two for each county - in addition, the towns of Edenton, Newbern, Wilmington, Salisbury, Hillsboro and Halifax each elected one representative; and a property qualification - a freehold of 50 acres held for six months before an election - was imposed on electors of senators.

He was going to ask for a divorce.

The business of the divorce - or rather, of the legitimation of Anne Boleyn's expected issue - had now become very urgent, and in the new archbishop he had an agent who might be expected to forward it with the needful haste.

When he visited her, she'd mentioned marriage and divorce.

Jackson pretended to whisper, but said loud enough for anyone to hear, Messy divorce.

Let's not jump into this thing – this divorce.

He was the one who wanted a divorce.

I wasn't the one who wanted a divorce.

Froude rejects the whole story, Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, p. 54; and see Friedman's Anne Boleyn, ii.

The Mussulman cadis retain their jurisdiction in regard to religious affairs, marriage, divorce, the wardship of minors and inheritance.

He was a man of learning, writing in favour of Henry's divorce, and with Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, a treatise against Cardinal Pole.

A divorce may be granted only to one who has lived for at least one year in the state; among the recognized causes for divorce are desertion for two years, cruelty, insanity or physical incapacity at time of marriage, habitual drunkenness or excessive use of opium or other drugs, and the conviction of either party of felony.

Accordingly, on his return to Paris he caused the news to be broken to her that reasons of state of the most urgent kind compelled him to divorce her.

Chanler in 1888, and after their divorce married in 1896 Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy of Russia.

In 1333 he was sent for to Rome, where, we are told, he first maintained the pope's authority in cases of divorce; but this opinion he retracted.

In 1886 by his efforts divorce became legal after three years of definite separation on the demand of one of the parties concerned.

In divorce law, the confession of a wife charged with adultery may be treated with circumspection and caution, for fear of collusion between the parties to a suit.

Until lately polygamy has been common among all the Malagasy tribes, and divorce effected in an absurdly easy fashion.

My brother Ralph, bless his soul, lost a son to the system after a divorce.

When they returned home, Alex would start making arrangements for the divorce.

But then, she wasn't the one who wanted a divorce.

Maybe the need to placate his father had spawned the decision to call off the divorce.

I didn't want you to think I was going to fight you on it and …" "Do you mean to tell me you didn't want a divorce?"

Although married she always remained a member of her father's house - she is rarely named wife of A, usually daughter of B, or mother of C. Divorce was optional with the man, but he had to restore the dowry and, if the wife had borne him children, she had the custody of them.

At their first interview Cranmer was commanded by the king to lay aside all other pursuits and to devote himself to the question of the divorce.

In Spain causes of nullity and divorce a thoro, in Portugal causes of nullity between Catholics, are still for the court Christian.

On the 3rd of May Bothwell's divorce from his wife was decreed by the civil court, on the ground of his adultery with a maidservant, and on the 7th by the Roman Catholic court on the ground of consanguinity.

He corresponded frequently with Mary, but there being no hopes whatever of his restoration, and a new suitor being found in the duke of Norfolk, Mary demanded a divorce, on pleas which recall those of Henry VIII.

Similar, too, was the revelation, when freedom of speech was at last allowed, of the unhappy effect of the long divorce of the intellect of the country from any experience of practical politics.

They declare their readiness to adapt the law of the synagogue to the law of the land, as for instance in the question of marriage and divorce.

At first this seemed not improbable; French armies marched south on Naples, and the pope sent Campeggio with full powers to pronounce the divorce in England.

There is still less ground for the supposition that Henry of Anjou, whom she married immediately after the divorce, had been her lover before it.

It is worthy of note that Josephine then won a triumph over Joseph Bonaparte and his sisters, who had been intriguing to effect a divorce.

It is time now to notice two important events in the life of the emperor, namely his divorce of Josephine and his union with Marie Louise of Austria.

Her character, and still more her circumstances, made the pen very unamiably busy with her in her lifetime, the chief of many lampoons being the famous Divorce satirique, variously attributed to Agrippa d'Aubigne, Palma Cayet, and others.

In any case the proposal was well received at Paris both by Napoleon and by his ministers; and though there were difficulties respecting the divorce, of Josephine, yet these were surmounted in a way satisfactory to the emperor and the prelates of Austria.

He appeared on her behalf before the legates at Blackfriars; and wrote a treatise against the divorce that was widely read.

Cesare, who renounced his cardinalate, was sent on a mission to France at the end of the year, bearing a bull of divorce for the new king Louis XII., in exchange for which he obtained the duchy of Valentinois (hence his title of Duca Valentino) and a promise of material assistance in his schemes to subjugate the feudal princelings of Romagna; he married a princess of Navarre.

The supreme court is almost without exception a court of appeal with jurisdiction in cases involving at least $2000, in cases of divorce, in suits regarding adoption, legitimacy and custody of children and as regards the legality and constitutionality of taxes, fines, &c. The supreme court appoints courts of appeal to judge cases involving less than $2000.

It was now that the results of a divorce of the army from the nation began to be felt.

The wife enjoys a respected position and divorce may be demanded by either party.

The grounds for an absolute divorce in Minnesota are adultery, impotence, cruel and inhuman treatment, sentence to state prison or state reformatory subsequent to the marriage, desertion or habitual drunkenness for one year next preceding the application for a divorce.

A conspicuous example of the incalculable evil wrought by lack of integration is well seen in the radical divorce of surgery from medicine, which is one of the most mischievous legacies of the middle ages - one whose mischief is scarcely yet fully recognized, and yet which is so deeply rooted in our institutions, in the United Kingdom at any rate, as to be hard to obliterate.

He denounced Milton's Divorce i at Pleasure, was answered in the Colasterion, and contemptuously referred to in the sonnet "On the Forcers of Conscience."

In 1698 she was unceremoniously sent off to the Pokrovsky monastery at Suzdal for refusing to consent to a divorce, though it was not till June 1699 that she disappeared from the world beneath the hood of sister Elena.

On returning to France in 1802 he obtained a divorce from his wife (who in 1805 married the comte de Caraman, later prince de Chimay), and was left for some time without employment.