divorce

Definition

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

Etymology

Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.

Example Sentences

• "Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene."
• "The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines."
• "The great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully"