disjointure
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.
Example Sentences
- "With Henry's divorce and the creation of an autonomous Church of England, Italian intercourse with England entered into a period of disjointure that would continue, except for a brief revival under Mary, .through the end of Elizabeth's reign."
- "To distinguish between the two opposing possibilities of this disjointure, or disjunction – between 'injustice' and the opening to the other – a deconstructive move becomes necessary."
- "Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense."