divorcern.
/dɪˈvɔːsə/ 1.
a. A person who divorces or puts away in legal form a spouse.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > one who divorces
divorcer1644
1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 9 They think it follows that second mariage is in no case to be permitted either to the divorcer or to the divorsed.
b. A person who or thing which divorces or separates a married couple.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > separation > forcible separation > that which separates husband and wife
divorcer1623
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 47 Death is the violent estranger of acquaintance, the eternal Diuorcer of Marriage.
1831 T. Carlyle Let. 4 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1976) V. 397 Rutherford sat also within the ring; with Dr Lushington (the Divorcer).
2. figurative. A person who or thing which severs or parts persons or things closely united.
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the world > life > death > [noun] > personified or as an agent
deathOE
dragon?a1513
stinger1552
stretch-legc1560
king of terrors1610
divorcer?1611
reaper1650
raw-bone1784
Small-Back1823
grim reaper1847
the great or last enemy1885
scytheman1909
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > one who or that which separates
divorcer?1611
trenchanta1660
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 759 Patroclus..was from his own [life] divorced, And thus his great divorcer braved: [etc.].
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 285/1 Since then the old divorcer [death] has been busy.
1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander xviii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 75 That cold divorcer will betwixt them still.
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