What's the difference between disunion and divorcement?
Disunion
Definition:
(n.) The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.
(n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
(n.) The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Catalysed by the scientific progress in medicine an increasing specialisation in internal medicine developed with the danger of a disunion of the specialty.
(2) With the gradual improvement of the legislative provisions the aim has been to try to remove the negative effects brought about by structural weaknesses of a historically developed social security system for the disabled,--especially the unequal treatment of the disabled, varying according to the origin of the disability, and the disadvantages brought about by the organisational and legislative disunion of rehabilitation services.
(3) And instead of giving in to the forces of disunion, you stepped back from a descent into civil war, and showed a proud resilience that deserves respect.
(4) Linda Colley concluded her BBC Radio 4 Acts of Union and Disunion series by calling for "new constitutive ideas for a new kind of union".
(5) After good initial progress, the patient had to be reoperated on the 12th postoperative day for sternal disunion.
Divorcement
Definition:
(n.) Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.
Example Sentences:
(1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(2) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(3) Of course, every divorce is costly; but muddling through would be even more costly.
(4) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
(5) Last year I became involved with a divorced man 16 years younger than me.
(6) Six hypotheses to explain how divorce may affect the trajectory of child development were tested using standardized measures and sociodemographic data.
(7) The implications of these data for theories of post-divorce adaptation and adult attachment are discussed.
(8) Those with lower knowledge of AIDS were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed, older, and more personally concerned about AIDS.
(9) It critiques this literature and compares the findings with literature on the effects of separation in father absence related to other causes (for example, divorce, death, military service).
(10) Whether divorce interrupts the savings process or destroys assets, it is unlikely that most individuals will be able to save enough in later life to overcome the loss.
(11) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(12) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
(13) It remains the case that the economic status of men and women diverge substantially in the years after divorce.
(14) A heavy smoker – “I once quit for four months … but why should I torture myself at my age?” – and outspoken supporter of gay marriage, the divorced and recently remarried father of two collected more than 4,000 signatures from Austrian public figures and celebrities during his presidential campaign.
(15) Getting a divorce really sucks,” she says, adding that she still doesn’t view their nine-year marriage as a failure.
(16) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
(17) He said some or all of about $100,000 withdrawn from the account was spent on Jackson’s divorce proceedings, court documents show.
(18) The frequency of marriage and divorce did not differ from that of the general population.
(19) Clarification: Jirehouse Capital and Stephen Jones - see Clarification and footnote Jailed British property developer Scot Young, an associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, constructed a secret network of offshore companies to hold his assets during a multimillion-pound divorce battle, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ's) research.
(20) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.