decree absolutenoun [ S ]
uk/dɪˌkriː ˈæb.sə.luːt/us/dɪˌkriː ˈæb.sə.luːt/specializedthe final stage of a divorce (= a legal agreement to end a marriage), when people become free to marry again
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Relationships: ending & divorce
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order
- annul
- break up
- break-up
- child support
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- give sb the push idiom
- go off with sb
- grow
- grow apart
- heave-ho
- push
- split
- split up
- throw
- throw sb over
- tug of love
- visitation
- walk
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Examples from literature
- Both the decree nisi and the decree absolute were granted.
- How this was arranged I do not know, but the decree nisi and the decree absolute were granted without any difficulties arising.
- Norman is getting a divorce—the decree absolute will be granted in March next.
- This mode of procedure was, of course, a most expensive one, and during the seventeenth century but three decrees absolute were granted, the parties in each belonging to the peerage and the cause being the same.