单词 | disunion |
释义 | disunionn. 1. Rupture of union; separation, severance; disjunction. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > disjunction, disunion, or disconnection unknittingc1384 discretiona1398 disjunctionc1400 disjuncturec1400 discouplingc1425 unjoining?c1425 unjointing?c1425 disjoining1530 disunion1598 breach1625 disunity1632 disconnection1663 disjointure1757 disjointing1794 disarticulation1808 non-union1823 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 69 Chaos returne, and with confusion Inuolue the world with strange disunion. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Disunion, a seuering. 1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes 177 When disunion is begunne It breedeth dangers, where before were none. 1781 G. Stuart tr. J. L. De Lolme Constit. Eng. (ed. 3) Advt. p. iv A disunion of the Empire was endeavoured to be promoted. 1792 G. Washington Let. in Writings (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. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 346 Three boats..were secured [to the fast-boat] by means of a rope, and towed without danger of disunion. 1884 Act 47 & 48 Vict. c. 66 (title) An Act to provide for the disunion of the Sees of Gloucester and Bristol. 2. Absence or want of union; disunited or separated condition; dissension. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > division or lack of unity unoning1340 schism1390 division1393 departmentc1450 rupture1583 secting1598 disunion1601 twine1606 section1639 distermination1647 scission1736 cleavage1867 non-union1909 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 115 In this disunion, as it were, appeareth yet a brotherly fellowship and vnitie. 1656 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age Contin. 279 By disunion of wills amongst his friends. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 318 The Inconveniences which the Dis-union of Persuasions and Opinions accidentally produces. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. ii. 335 Ages of disunion and disaster. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xxv. 404 He complained..of the disunion of the Sicilian Greeks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598 |
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