Definition of "dissevered" [dissevered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of dissever. (verb)

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• "The repetition of Hewet's name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird."
• "In the eleventh century, the prospect was again clouded by new enemies and new misfortunes: the relics of Italy were swept away by the Norman adventures; and almost all the Asiatic branches were dissevered from the Roman trunk by the Turkish conquerors."
• "Spain was dissevered from the trunk of the monarchy, engaged in perpetual hostility with the East, and inclined to peace and friendship with the Christian sovereigns of Constantinople and"