Definition of "divorcement" [di•vorce•ment]

• Complete separation. (noun)

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• "Here the divorcement from the soil is as apparent as in every other agricultural line in England."
• "So far has the divorcement of the worker from the soil proceeded, that the farming districts, the civilised world over, are dependent upon the cities for the gathering of the harvests."
• "In not a single case did the petition for a writ of divorcement include an allegation that either the underlying or ancillary issue was traceable to some geographic proximity to a same-sex couple that the divorcing couple suffered."