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disunion|dɪsˈjuːnɪən|
[dis- 9]
1. Rupture of union; separation, severance; disjunction.
1598Marston Pygmal. v. 156 Chaos returne, and with confusion Inuolue the world with strange disunion. 1623Cockeram, Disunion, a seuering. 1634Wither Emblemes 177 When disunion is begunne It breedeth dangers, where before were none. 1775De Lolme Eng. Const. Advt. (1784) 12 A disunion of the empire was endeavoured to be promoted. 1792G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1891 XII. 204 Foreigners would..believe that inveterate political dissensions existed among us, and that we are on the very verge of disunion; but the fact is otherwise. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 346 Three boats..were secured [to the fast-boat] by means of a rope, and towed without danger of disunion. 1884Act 47 & 48 Vict. c. 66 (title) An Act to provide for the disunion of the Sees of Gloucester and Bristol.
attrib. [cf. disunionist a.]1848Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 125, I do not agree with the abolitionists in their disunion and non-voting theories. a1857in Pall Mall G. 29 May (1865) 2 New York Dis-Union Anti-Slavery Convention—To be held at Albany in February, 1857.
2. Absence or want of union; disunited or separated condition; dissension.
1601Holland Pliny I. 115 In this disunion, as it were, appeareth yet a brotherly fellowship and vnitie. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 287 By dis-union of wils amongst his friends. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. v. iii. (1737) III. 319 The Inconveniences which the Dis-union of Persuasions and Opinions accidentally produces. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. ii. 335 Ages of disunion and disaster. 1838Thirlwall Greece III. xxv. 404 He complained..of the disunion of the Sicilian Greeks. |