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diremption Now rare.|dɪˈrɛm(p)ʃən|
[ad. L. diremptiōn-em, n. of action f. dirimĕre to separate, divide.]
a. A forcible separation or severance.
1623Cockeram, Diremption, a separation. 1678Hobbes Decam. iii. 25 They cannot be parted except the Air or other matter can enter and fill the space made by their diremption. 1874C. E. Appleton in Life & Lit. Relics (1881) 159 The diremption of the two kinds of development may be possible to the individual. 1876Contemp. Rev. XXVII. 960 The successive stages..on the way through self-diremption to the return unto self.
b. spec. Forcible separation of man and wife.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. (1650) 331 The displeasure of the Canon law against such marriages is so high flowne, that no lesse can take it off then an utter diremption of them. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xiii. 4 Marriage..ought not to be dissolved, but by diremption, which is, by severing man and wife by death.
c. Bot. An abnormal separation or displacement of leaves.
1869M. T. Masters Veget. Teratol. 87 The term ‘diremption’ has sometimes been applied to cases where leaves are thus apparently dragged out of position. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Diremption, the occasional separation or displacement of leaves. |