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Example sentences for "divorced"

Lexicographically close words:
divitias; divitiis; divo; divom; divorce; divorcee; divorcees; divorcement; divorces; divorcing
  1. Society, notwithstanding its cynical attitude, is not too favourable to divorced men and women, particularly women.

  2. Strindberg's wife, to marry him, had divorced herself from a baron.

  3. She has accused Marianne of an unforgiving disposition, and it is only too plain that she still considers her married to her divorced husband.

  4. She had been divorced from the handsome, profligate Demidoff, and her allowance, a big one, had been given her by a decree from the Czar.

  5. He thought it over for three days and when he called on Lily Condor again he found her divorced from her languishing mood.

  6. The spectacle of Mrs. Finnegan, who lodged in the flat below, slopping warm suds over the thin marble steps, added a final note of homeliness, which divorced Claire completely from heroics.

  7. The technical administration was divorced from the political influence and placed under the newly created Minister of Agriculture.

  8. Notable progress, however, came only when hunting was placed in the background and more or less divorced from forest work.

  9. From the former he divorced himself at pleasure, and often visited her with corporal punishment.

  10. If this principle be denied, half the property of the civilized world will be divorced from its present owners.

  11. The knowledge of this fact will not only save them and the children much needless anguish and suffering, but will make it much easier to deal with the latter, make it much easier to get them divorced from the habit.

  12. Many divorced couples, I imagine, would remarry, if they were not ashamed.

  13. The reconciliation of parties was further shown in the marriage of Hubert de Burgh to John's divorced wife, Isabella of Gloucester, a widow by the death of the Earl of Essex, and still the foremost English heiress.

  14. Isabella of Gloucester, divorced wife of John, wife of Hubert de Burgh.

  15. Ere he had been many months on the throne he divorced his wife, Isabella of Gloucester, alleging that their marriage had been illegal because they were within the prohibited degrees.

  16. The process was begun of converting Irish chieftains into English peers which eventually divorced the Irish people from their natural leaders; and principles of English law and government were spread beyond the Pale.

  17. This lady, the divorced wife of Louis VII.

  18. In 1806 he killed in a duel Charles Dickinson, who had spoken disparagingly of his wife, whom he had lately married, a divorced woman, but to whom he was tenderly attached as long as she lived.

  19. Am I to understand that if Cecil commits a mur- der, or forges, or steals, or becomes an atheist, I cant get divorced from him?

  20. The point is that State marriage is already divorced from Church marriage.

  21. Practically, civilly married couples are received in society, by Catholics and everyone else, precisely as sacramentally married couples are; and so are people who have divorced their wives or husbands and married again.

  22. He even went so far as to insist on her returning to society and seeing more of the world before she was divorced from it irrevocably.

  23. In the whole history of the world, you will not find an instance of a purely atheistical state, or a state held to be completely divorced from the spiritual order.

  24. Purely secular education, or education divorced from religion, endangers the safety of the state and the peace and security of the community, instead of protecting and insuring them.

  25. To declare the government divorced from religion is to declare it emancipated from the law of God, from all moral obligation, and free to do whatever it pleases.

  26. Edith Yorke's innocence was not of that kind which is divorced from dignity and delicacy, and smiles at freedoms from everybody.

  27. Such illustrations as these are not infrequent in the biographies of those noble men who in days gone by as well as in our own times, have never divorced truth from trade, but have always reverenced the sacred relations.

  28. One question, with its answer, and I shall have done: Are these Southerners in Wall Street divorced in spirit and sympathy from their old homes?

  29. Nothing is more certain than that by the old religious marriage woman was completely adopted into the legal and sacramental group of her husband and divorced from her own.

  30. We have seen that an essential mark of the state consists in a public power of coercion divorced from the mass of the people.

  31. Representatives of a power that is divorced from society, they must enforce respect by exceptional laws that render them specially sacred and inviolable.

  32. And this power, the outgrowth of society, but assuming supremacy over it and becoming more and more divorced from it, is the state.

  33. The Czar's first divorced wife Eudoxia was confined in the convent of Suzdal.

  34. When Pericles, accompanied by Aspasia, reached his house, his son by his divorced wife was dead.

  35. Many thought that he ought to have divorced her.

  36. Some held that he had divorced her; but in those days an Act of Parliament was necessary, and no such Act stood on the Statute-book.

  37. He had divorced himself by public act from the party to which his forbears--for the Vaughans as well as the Vermuydens had been Tories--had belonged.

  38. It was not much of a deceit," she continued, with a slight tremble of her pretty lip, "to prefer to pass as the widow of a dead desperado than to be known as the divorced wife of a living convict.

  39. The decree which was in due time issued from the Vatican, that, so long as his divorced wife lived, the prince might not marry again, was a serious check upon certain pet schemes cherished by the Marchioness Caldariva.

  40. Thus the divorced wife, who was yet hardly more than a girl, found herself left alone in Rome.

  41. It was to the following effect: The husband and wife were declared divorced, but with the proviso that the latter should never marry again, and the former not during his divorced wife's lifetime.

  42. This latter clause does not apply to a divorced man.

  43. Even when you take away the individual confidence in the drug, you have not yet divorced the drug from the general faith.

  44. The Protestant Episcopal Church took strong ground against its ministers remarrying a divorced person, and the National Council of Congregational Churches appointed a special committee which reported in 1907 in favor of strictness.

  45. Very shortly after the birth of Claudia, discovering the unfaithfulness of Urgulania, Claudius divorced her, and ordered the child to be stripped naked and exposed to die.

  46. Some of them chose for themselves and married barmaids and divorced persons, just for the reason that they were in love and uncontrolled.

  47. I have known cases where the husband in a fit of passion has divorced his wife the third time, and, in order to get her back again, has hired another man to marry her and then divorce her.

  48. But if the husband divorce her a third time, it is not lawful for him to take her again, until she shall have been actually married to another husband, and then divorced by him.

  49. A rich Effendi had divorced his wife the third time, and wishing to re-marry her, hired a poor man to marry her for a consideration of seven hundred piastres.


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    Other words:
    alienated; detached; disarticulated; disconnected; disengaged; disjointed; disjunct; dislocated; dispersed; disunited; divided; divorced; estranged; isolated; removed; scattered; segregated; separated; sequestered