Legal dissolution of marriage by a court or other competent body, or according to forms recognized in the country, nation, or tribe.

The action of the verb in various senses.

A legal parting or separation; formal divorce.

The action of divorcing, or the fact of being divorced; dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce.

Scottish. Divorce. Obsolete.

The action of separate, v.

= divorce, n.

Divorcing, divorce, n.

The ceremonial practice necessary to dissolve a marriage contracted by confarreation (confarreation, n. 1a).

A divorce. Obsolete. rare.

In Muslim law: (a method of) divorce by the husband's mere verbal repudiation of his wife in a set form of words (see quots.). Cf. get, n.3

The formal declaration that a marriage has been annulled; a legal decree annulling a marriage. See annul, v. 1b.

Cessation of conjugal cohabitation, either by mutual consent of the parties or imposed by a judicial decree granted at the suit of one of them. judi…

In Islamic law: a form of divorce initiated by the wife, which requires that the husband receive financial compensation.

A notional place in which couples are separated or divorced; separation, divorce, or estrangement. Also in extended use.