undivorce
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A marriage in which the partners remain married in name only.
Example Sentences
- "'Did you undivorce me?' " Rafer asked. Daddy explained that he had divorced only Rafer's mother, and off they went to the park."
- "An interesting presentation of the implications of this divorce between producer and consumer can be found in Toffler (1980), who uses the terms second wave to refer to the modern era and third wave to refer to the more postmodern perspectives where attempts are made to undivorce (remarry?) the two."
- ""What's her angle?" I went on. "Surely after all these years the dame must have known she was divorced. Why in hell should she be trying to undivorce herself now?""
- "We were Christians; Christians living in a state of undivorce.yet striving to keep the marriage together while living in great unpeace and disharmony."
- "My divorce was related to her undivorce, so the generations unfold back to back handing on their burdens — by contamination, memory, experience, identification, one's failure becomes the other's."
- "Max screams from the other room just as I am nodding off on my own couch, sorting through how I feel about the undivorce."
Etymology
From un- + divorce.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un