Divorce Definition
- divorcement
- broken-home
- breakup
- split-up
- rift
- dissolution
- decree-nisi
- judicial separation
- legal separation
- annulment
- bill of divorce
- parting of the ways
- separate maintenance
- dissociation
- estrangement
Origin of Divorce
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From Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French from Latin dīvortium from dīvortere to divert variant of dīvertere divert
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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French masculine past participle of divorcer to divorce from Old French from divorce divorce divorce
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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