dissever
/dɪˈsɛvɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[T]he ſaid floud of Rubicon diſſeuereth the Galle Ciſalpine from Italie."
- "The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again."
- "They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had razed their love—which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity."
- "Henchard’s wife was dissevered from him by death; his friend and helper Farfrae by estrangement; Elizabeth-Jane by ignorance."
- "Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’."
- "If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered."
Etymology
From Middle English disseveren, from Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Vulgar Latin *dissēperō, dissēperāre, from Latin dis- + sēparō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˈsɛvɚ/
- British English: /dɪˈsɛvə/