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disconnexion, -nection|dɪskəˈnɛkʃən|
[f. dis- 9 + connexion, after disconnect v.]
1. The action of disconnecting (rare); the fact or condition of being disconnected or unconnected; undoing of connexion; separation, detachment, disunion. (Const. from, between.)
1735Franklin True Happiness Wks. 1887 I. 423 We shall soon see the disconnexion between that and true, solid happiness. 1769Burke Pres. St. Nat. Wks. II. 193 A spirit of disconnexion, of distrust, and of treachery among public men. 1846Trench Mirac. xxix. (1862) 416 The power was most truly his own, not indeed in disconnexion from the Father. 1875Ouseley Harmony iv. 61 An awkward harmonic disconnection between the 6th and 7th of the Scale. 1894Times 23 July 6/6 [It] involves the complete disconnexion of one part of the machinery before the other can be brought into working order. 1895Parkes Health 60 By disconnection [of drains] is meant that the waste-pipe should discharge by an open end in the outer air.
2. Want of connexion between the component parts; disconnectedness.
1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 454 The Iliad has too much of the disconnection which offends in the Orlando. |