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sundering, vbl. n.|ˈsʌndərɪŋ|
[f. sunder v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb sunder; parting, separation.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 458 Of merke, and kinde, and helde, & ble, sundring and samening taȝte he. 1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 91 Heresie..in oure langage meneth sunderyng and partyng. 1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. ix. 91 Þe knot vnlousyd of drawynge frenschyp sal comforth heuynes of bodily sondyrynge. 1530Palsgr. 272/2 Sondring of a thyng, remotion. 1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 126 That was the caus of thair suddaine sindering. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 99 That would partake of sundering, if it were not the least that can be. 1838Sir W. Hamilton Logic xxv. (1866) II. 22 Under Division..we understand in general the sundering of a whole into its parts. 1863W. Phillips Sp. vi. 121 The sundering of the Methodist and Baptist denominations. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. vi. 121 The profound concavity of these valleys cannot..arise from the sundering of the sides of a fissure.
So ˈsundering ppl. a., that sunders.
1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 332 A new lonely pain, Like sundering death, smote on her. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Insights xxx. 292 Myriad sparkles of ever sundering atoms. 1885E. Arnold Secr. Death 23 Wide asunder stand Wisdom and ignorance, in sundering ways They lead mankind! |