diremptionn.
/dɪˈrɛm(p)ʃən/ Now rare.
a. A forcible separation or severance.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > forcible separation
distraction1581
diremption1623
revulsion1663
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Diremption, a separation.
1678 T. Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum iii. 25 They cannot be parted except the Air or other matter can enter and fill the space made by their diremption.
1874 C. E. Appleton in Life & Lit. Relics (1881) 159 The diremption of the two kinds of development may be possible to the individual.
1876 Contemp. Rev. 27 960 The successive stages..on the way through self-diremption to the return unto self.
b. spec. Forcible separation of man and wife.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > separation > forcible separation
diremption1649
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. v. 434 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.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 4) iv. 33 Marriage..ought not to be dissolved, but by diremption, which is, by severing man and wife by death.
c. Botany. An abnormal separation or displacement of leaves.
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1869 M. T. Masters Veg. Teratol. 87 The term ‘diremption’ has sometimes been applied to cases where leaves are thus apparently dragged out of position.
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Diremption, the occasional separation or displacement of leaves.
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