a judicial declaration dissolving a marriage in whole or in part, especially one that releases the marriage partners from all matrimonial obligations.Compare judicial separation.
any formal separation of husband and wife according to established custom.
total separation; disunion: a divorce between thought and action.
verb (used with object),di·vorced,di·vorc·ing.
to separate by divorce: The judge divorced the couple.
to break the marriage contract between oneself and (one's spouse) by divorce: She divorced her husband.
to separate; cut off: Life and art cannot be divorced.
verb (used without object),di·vorced,di·vorc·ing.
to get a divorce.
Origin of divorce
1350–1400; Middle English <Anglo-French <Latin dīvortium separation, equivalent to dīvort(ere), variant of dīvertere to divert + -ium-ium
First recorded in 1805–15; from French, noun use of masculine past participle of divorcer, from Medieval Latin dīvortiāre “to divorce,” derivative of Latin dīvortium “separation”; see divorce
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