divorceen.
/dɪˌvɔːˈsiː/ A divorced person.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > divorced person
divorcee1814
ex1929
used-to-be1942
DWM1977
1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. iv. 120 The mother was a divorcée.
1877 C. Reade Woman-hater (1883) ii. 13 He was now a divorcé.
1880 Daily News 1 Oct. 6/1 The Church would..refuse to sanction..any civil marriage between divorcees and co-respondents.
1884 R. C. Praed Zéro xviii Divorcées were in the ascendant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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