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Definition: Divorce |
DivorceNoun1. The legal dissolution of a marriage. Verb1. Part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president". 2. Get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "divorce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | Nominally, separation of husband and wife from the bonds of matrimony. In the vicinity of Newport it is frequently a legal formula that immediately precedes a fashionable wedding. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Divorce The dissolution of the marriage tie was regulated by the Mosaic law (Deut. 24:1-4). The Jews, after the Captivity, were reguired to dismiss the foreign women they had married contrary to the law (Ezra 10:11-19). Christ limited the permission of divorce to the single case of adultery. It seems that it was not uncommon for the Jews at that time to dissolve the union on very slight pretences (Matt. 5:31, 32; 19:1-9; Mark 10:2-12; Luke 16:18). These precepts given by Christ regulate the law of divorce in the Christian Church. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being divorced, denotes that you are not satisfied with your companion, and should cultivate a more congenial atmosphere in the home life. It is a dream of warning. For women to dream of divorce, denotes that a single life may be theirs through the infidelity of lovers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Law | The legal dissolution of a marriage. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In developed countries, divorce rates have increased markedly during the twentieth century. Among the states in which divorce has become commonplace are the United States, Japan, Korea and members of the European Union. In U.S, Canada, the United Kingdom and other some other developed Commonwealth countries, this boom in divorce developed in the last half of the twentieth century, corresponding, more or less, with the abolition of such concepts as illegitimacy and the development of the equality of the sexes. In addition, acceptance of the single-parent family has resulted in many women deciding to have children outside marriage as there is little remaining social stigma attached to unwed mothers. The subject of divorce as a social phenomenon is an important research topic in sociology.
Some researchers argue that divorce rate does not always reflect actual interactions among people; that is, some countries may show a low divorce rate because, in such countries, people rarely get married in the first place. This heavily depends on cultural values and how the tax system affects married couples.
The term between divorce and remarriage varies depending on the country and the gender of the divorcee. In some countries, women need to wait longer than men before remarrying to avoid confusion about paternity. Children born after divorce may or may not be recognized as children of their father depending on the period between divorce and birth. In most common law jurisdictions there is a presumption that the child born during the marriage is the father's child, however this presumption can be overcome by identifying the putative father and bringing a paternity or affiliation proceeding. If the child was conceived before the divorce but born afterward this is the kind of grey area that jurists enjoy litigating. If a man accepts the child as his own he may be declared the father by estoppel as the parens patrie power of the court would rather the child have a male role model responsible for child support and other parental obligations rather than have the child grow up in a monoparental family.
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Divorce in some jurisdictions is a relatively recent phenomenon. In Canada there was no divorce law until the 1960s. Before that the only way to get divorced was to apply to the Canadian Senate where a special committee would undertake an investigation of a request for a divorce and if they found that the request had merit, the marriage would be dissolved by an Act of Parliament.
Prior to 1670 a marriage could only be ended by the Church courts if it could be shown to have never existed in the first place, either through inability to consent (e.g. insanity) or by want of capacity to marry (e.g. precontract, consanguinity, the two parties were related by a previous marriage). A marriage could also be ended if one of the parties were impotent or frigid when the marriage was contracted. It was also possible to get a legal separation from the church known as divorce a mensa et thoro (from board and hearth). Grounds for the separation included adultery, cruelty and heresy, and it meant that any offspring were not rendered illegitimate.
In the 1530s, Henry VIII decided that he wished to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, on the grounds of affinity; he argued that, since Catherine was his brother Arthur's widow, the marriage had never really existed. Catherine claimed that her marriage to Arthur had never been properly consummated. In 1533 Thomas Cranmer was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and he declared that Henry's marriage to Catherine was void, effectively bastardizing their daughter Mary (later Mary I). In 1536 Cranmer similarly declared Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn void, most probably due to Henry's pervious relationship with Anne's sister Mary Boleyn. Cranmer tried to reform the Church of England's Canon law so that it allowed divorce for adultery, cruelty, and desertion, but these changes were not implemented.
Following Lord Roos's divorce on the grounds of adultery in 1670, the procedure for divorce in English law went as follows: first the husband brought an action for "criminal conversation" to establish the adultery, then he obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro from the church and then finally he petitioned the House of Lords to grant the divorce.
In 1853 a Royal Commission made recommendations on how to improve the procedure of getting a divorce. In 1857 the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, based in London, was established, taking over the divorce duties of the church courts. Men could obtain divorce for adultery, but women had to prove cruelty or desertion, in addition of their husband's adultery. In 1923 women were allowed to use the same grounds for divorce as men. In 1969, after much debate, matrimonial breakdown became grounds for divorce.
Many countries in Europe, such as France prohibited divorce as it was not condoned by the Catholic church. Sometimes citizens would have to travel to other jurisdictions to obtain a divorce.
David Instone-Brewer has an extensive website at www.instone-brewer.com which discusses marriage and divorce from 1st century context.
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Women are generally the financial victims of divorce due to the lack of equal pay for equal work in many countries and the fact that many women give up employment after marriage to bring up children. They are often left with the burden of looking after the children after the divorce while having to find work in low-paid jobs. Child support collection is a major problem as many fathers do not accept that they have an obligation towards their children. Many national and local governments provide some kind of welfare system for divorced mothers and their children. See single mother for detail.
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You can also carry out an "online divorce". The first online divorce occurred in 1999. For more information try http://www.quickedivorce.co.uk.
See also: Alimony, child support, visitation, child custody, paternity, civil unionHistory of Divorce
Great Britain
Religious/Cultural Attitudes to Divorce
Social and Psychological Issues
Legal Aspects of Divorce
United States
Under the laws of most of the states of the United States except New York a divorce is now called dissolution of marriage. This change of name was accompanied by a change from fault-based divorce, whereby one party was found guilty of one of the grounds for divorce such as adultery, abandonment, or cruel and inhuman treatment. Now, under no-fault divorce, it is simply necessary to plead that the marriage is "irretrievably broken" or that there are "irreconcilable differences."Canada
In Canada while civil and political rights are in the jurisdiction of the provinces of Canada, the Constitution of Canada specifically made marriage and divorce the realm of the federal government. Essentially this means that Canada's divorce law is uniform throughout Canada, even in Quebec, that differs from the other provinces in its use of the civil law as codified in the Civil Code of Quebec as opposed to the common law that is in force in the other provinces and generally interpreted in similar ways throughout the Anglo-Canadian provinces.Japan
In Japan, under the national laws, divorce is a simple process of submitting a declaration to the relevant government office that says both spouses agree to divorce.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Divorce."
Synonyms: DivorceSynonyms: divorcement (n), disassociate (v), disjoint (v), dissociate (v), disunite (v), split up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Separation; parting; Verb: circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture, |
Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate). | |
Divorce | Verb: live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse, put away; wear the horns. |
Noun: divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro, separatio a vinculo matrimonii. | |
Tribunal | Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth. |
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Screenplays | Don't you mess with me, mister, or I'll divorce you so fast it'll make your head spin! (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Well, for starters, you can get your stubborn ass down here and give me a divorce. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Tell me is it one in four marriages that end in divorce these days or one in three? (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) Well, apart from the divorce and all that. (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis) Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman. (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Lyrics | Well she finally got the nerve to fight for divorce (Goodbye Earl; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) Well, she finally got the nerve to file for divorce ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
Clever | She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973) Child of Divorce (1946) Divorce (1945) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) I Want a Divorce (1940) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Divorce does more than break up marriages... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | My wife's goin' over for a divorce an I'm seein' her as far as Paris ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Men's dormitory at night at the homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa (for unattached men). Unemployment is the primary cause of their being here. This unemployment has been the direct cause of broken homes, through divorce and incompatibility. Most of. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Emily Bancker in A divorce cure from the French of Sardou by Harry Saint Maur. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A divorce cure from the French of Sardou by Harry Saint Maur. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Daniel Webster | If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. |
Voltaire | Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. |
Zsa Zsa Gabor | Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Divorce was abolished. |
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Health | They are reacting to family stress like a new sibling or their parents' divorce. (references) | |
The difficulties encountered often result in family stress with a high divorce rate among the parents of a child undergoing dialysis. (references) | ||
Marriage, divorce, childbirth or adoption, and the death of a spouse are all life events that may signal a need to change your health benefits. (references) | ||
Business | Islamic law is applied in cases of divorce. (references) | |
Courts usually grant custody to the father regardless of the child's age in divorce cases. (references) | ||
Another trend is that the family as a unit is breaking up, because of divorce, etc. Only a couple of years ago, one could always see the tour operators advertising happy families, parents and two kids, on their vacation. (references) | ||
Children | Russia | A Family Code regulates children's rights and marriage and divorce issues. (references) |
Belgium | Children have the right to a voice in court cases that affect them, such as divorce proceedings. (references) | |
Mongolia | The law stipulates the obligations regarding divorce, custody, and alimony to the benefit of the parent caring for children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | Religion-specific laws pertain in matters of marriage, divorce, adoption, and inheritance. (references) |
Bangladesh | Fatwas commonly deal with marriage and divorce, or mete out punishments for perceived moral transgressions. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Each recognized religious community has legal authority over its members in matters of marriage and divorce. (references) | |
Discrimination | Maldives | Women traditionally have been disadvantaged, particularly in terms of the application of Shari'a, in matters such as divorce, education, inheritance, and testimony in legal proceedings. (references) |
Economic History | Lithuania | Density--56 people/sq km (1989). Divorce rate--33% (1989). (references) |
Sri Lanka | Laws pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance are communal. (references) | |
Human Rights | Niger | Customary courts, located only in large towns and cities, try cases involving divorce or inheritance. (references) |
Turkey | In one case, an alleged victim faced social ostracism and divorce after publicly accusing a policeman of rape. (references) | |
Gambia | Shari'a law is observed primarily in Muslim marriage and divorce matters; and it favors men in its provisions. (references) | |
Political Economy | West Bank | The business environment is also negatively affected by the plethora of laws that still apply in WB/G. The religious laws that govern personal status issues such as marriage, divorce, and inheritance are not in themselves necessarily economically disruptive. (references) |
Women | Bhutan | Divorce is common. (references) |
Guyana | Divorce by consent remains illegal. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Armenia | Traffickers may be prosecuted under different articles of the Criminal Code: For example, illicit seizure of non-property documents (passports or other personal documents), as well as use of these documents, may be punished by imprisonment up to 1 year; falsification and selling of documents, by imprisonment up to 5 years; pandering, by imprisonment up to 5 years; bogus marriage and bogus divorce with mercenary ends or other reasons, by imprisonment up to 1 year; extortion (coercion of a person, or coercion by publishing compromising information about a person), by imprisonment from 2 to 4 years; coercing of a woman to perform sexual intercourse by a person on whom this women is financially (or economically) dependent by imprisonment up to 7 years. (references) |
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| "Divorce" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.09% of the time. "Divorce" is used about 1,748 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.09% | 1,417 | 5,672 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.97% | 227 | 19,961 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.43% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.51% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,748 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "divorce": Bill of divorce ♦ divorce action ♦ divorce certificate ♦ divorce court ♦ divorce court judge ♦ divorce from ♦ divorce lawyer ♦ divorce one's husband ♦ divorce one's wife ♦ divorce rate ♦ divorce smth. from smth. ♦ divorce suit ♦ final divorce ♦ get a divorce ♦ irrevocable divorce ♦ issue a divorce decree ♦ obtain a divorce ♦ petition for divorce ♦ seek a divorce ♦ sue for a divorce. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "divorce": divorce-courts, divorce-rate, divorce-rates. | |
Ending with "divorce": anti-divorce, post-divorce, pro-divorce. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
divorce | 8,920 | free and divorce and form | 214 |
divorce law | 728 | texas divorce law | 213 |
divorce online | 573 | florida divorce law | 201 |
divorce record | 531 | divorce advice | 196 |
texas divorce | 481 | california divorce law | 186 |
illinois divorce | 461 | divorce in california | 178 |
divorce lawyer | 427 | filing for divorce | 166 |
arizona divorce | 411 | pro se divorce | 144 |
divorce papers | 393 | divorce decree | 134 |
jeff gordon divorce | 391 | quick divorce | 134 |
divorce child | 390 | separation and divorce | 130 |
divorce form | 365 | divorce court | 129 |
california divorce | 358 | georgia divorce | 127 |
colorado divorce | 332 | no fault divorce | 124 |
do it yourself divorce | 303 | uncontested divorce | 118 |
divorce statistics | 283 | military divorce | 112 |
florida divorce | 279 | divorce in texas | 110 |
divorce attorney | 263 | michigan divorce | 110 |
new york divorce | 234 | divorce help | 107 |
divorce rate | 233 | divorce kit | 105 |
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| Language | Translations for "divorce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | divorcoj, divorc (divorcement, repudiation, separation), veçoj (abstract, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divide, individualize, insulate, isolate, keep separate, partition, pick out, seclude, segregate, separate), veçim (detachment, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, insularity, insulation, isolation, retirement, seclusion, segregation, separation, withdrawal), shkëput nga, prishje martese, prish martesën, ndarje e kishës nga shteti, ndarje (allotment, bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, detachment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fissure, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, severance, share out, sorting, spacing, split, splitting), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مطلقة (grass widow), مطلق زوج, نهايةعقد الزواج بين, طلاق (repudiation), المطلق (grass widower), إنفصال (detachment, disconnection, disengagement, dissociation, disunion, disunity, division, estrangement, insularity, schism, scission, secession, separation, split), أطلق (cast, cast off, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, evolve, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развод (divorcement), развеждам (show around, show over, show round, take about, take around, take over, walk), разлъчвам (sever), разделяне (disjunction, disseverance, dissociation, divarication, division, divorcement, parting, partition, scission, section, segmentation, segregation, severance), разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), отлъчване (exclusion, interdict, separation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | divorci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 离婚 (Divorced, Divorcing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozvod (divorcement, split up), rozvést se, rozluka (separation), odtrhnout (tear off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skilsmisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | echtscheiding, scheiding (ablation(artificial), amotio, balatio, classification, detachment, diaeresis, grading, separation, sorting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | eksedziĝo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فسخ(مج.), طلاق , جداءی (Breakaway, Gulf, Rupture, Seclusion, Segregation, Sequester, Severance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erota (be different, differ, differ from, diverge, get a divorce, part, separate), ero (difference, discharge, disparity, distinction, parting, resignation, retirement, separation), avioero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | divorce, divorcer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scheidung (separation), ehescheidung, scheiden (depart, disintegrate, dissolve, divide, leave, part, quit, scabbards, separate, to separate, vaginae, vaginas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαζύγιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ת'רש, ל"פר" (leave, part, part company, separate), ל תק (break, cut off, detach, disconnect, disengage, isolate, sever, sunder, uncouple, uproot), 'ט (divorcing), 'רושים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | válás (breakup, break-up, divorcement), elválás (detachment, parting, separation, split up), házassági bontóítélet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | skilnaður. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | talak, perceraian (breakup, dissociation, separation), penceraian, menceraikan (analyze, parse, separate, separate from), cerai (separate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | divorzio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 離婚 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふうふわかれ (separation), ふえ" (amplification, elaboration, expatiation, unrealized marriage), りべつ (separation), り"" (intelligence), りえ" (dissolution of adoption, theatrical world), はきょう (broken mirror, marital separation), え"きり (separation, severing of connections). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이혼 (Divorcing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scarrey poosee (separation), scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder), jannoo scarrey poosee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skilsmisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | diborsio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivorceday divórcio (divorcement, repudiation). (various references) divorţa. (various references) развод (divorcement, separation). (various references) sgar (disjoin; sever, part, pull asunder, sever). (various references) razvod, razvesti se. (various references) divorcio (divorcement). (various references) skilsmässa (parting, separation), äktskapsskillnad. (various references) boşanmak (be loosed, burst, burst into tears, obtain a divorce), boşanma (split, split up), boşamak (repudiate), boşama (repudiation), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ayrılma (breakaway, breakup, check out, cleavage, decampment, defection, departure, deviation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divergence, divergency, excursion, leave taking, leaving, parting, scission, secession, secessional, segregation, separation, sequestration, severance, split, split up, sunder, sunderance, turn off), ayrılık (clash, difference, disagreement, dissentient, dissimilarity, faction, gap, parting, separation, standoff), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references) розривати (break, break away, denounce, develop, disrupt, outbreak, rupture, tear up), розрив (avulsion, breach, breaking, bursting, chasm, denunciation, dissolution, divorcement, estrangement, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear), розлучення (divorcement, estrangement), розлучений чоловік, розлучатися (annul marriage, part), розлучати (part). (various references) sự tách ra (detachment, sunderance). (various references) ysgaru (separate), ysgariaeth (separation), ysgariad (separation), ysgar (enemy, part, separate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abruptio, divortium, repudii. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 3, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eidon dioti peri pantwn wn katelhmfqh en oiV emoicato h katoikia tou israhl kai exapesteila authn kai edwka auth biblion apostasiou eiV taV ceiraV authV kai ouk efobhqh h asunqetoV iouda kai eporeuqh kai eporneusen kai auth |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quia pro eo quod moechata esset aversatrix Israhel dimisissem eam et dedissem ei libellum repudii et non timuit praevaricatrix Iuda soror eius sed abiit et fornicata est etiam ipsa |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For thi that `Irael, aduersarie, hadde do leccherie, I shulde haue left her, and youe to her a libel of forsaking; and the lawe brekeresse, Juda, hir sister, dradde not, but yide awei, and dide fornycacioun also she. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I saw, when for all the causes by which backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 3, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakita ko, sa diha nga, ang tanang mga hinungdan nga ang masalaypon nga Israel nakapanapaw, akong gisalikway siya ug gihatagan ko siya ug usa ka sulat sa kabulagan, ugaling ang iyang igsoong Juda nga maluibon wala mahadlok; apan miadto usab ug nagpakighilawas. |
| Croatian | A vidje i kako otpustih odmetnicu Izraela zbog svih preljuba i dadoh joj knjigu otpusnu. Ali sestra joj, nevjernica Judeja, nimalo se ne poboja, pa i ona okrenu u blud. |
| Danish | hun så, at jeg forstødte den troløse Kvinde Israel for al hendes Hors Skyld, og at jeg gav hende Skilsmissebrev; den svigefulde Søster Juda frygtede dog ikke, men gik også hen og bolede. |
| Dutch | En Ik zag, als Ik ter oorzake van alles, waarin de afgekeerde Israel overspel bedreven had, haar verlaten, en haar haar scheidbrief gegeven had, dat de trouweloze, haar zuster Juda, niet vreesde, maar ging henen, en hoereerde zelve ook. |
| Finnish | Ja minä näin, että, vaikka minä olin lähettänyt pois tuon luopiovaimon, Israelin, juuri sen tähden, että hän oli tehnyt aviorikoksen, ja olin antanut hänelle erokirjan, ei kuitenkaan uskoton Juuda, hänen sisarensa, peljännyt, vaan meni ja harjoitti haureutta hänkin. |
| French | Quoique j`eusse répudié l`infidèle Israël cause de tous ses adultères, et que je lui eusse donné sa lettre de divorce, j`ai vu que la perfide Juda, sa soeur, n`a point eu de crainte, et qu`elle est allée se prostituer pareillement. |
| German | wie ich der Abtrünnigen Israel Ehebruch gestraft und sie verlassen und ihr einen Scheidebrief gegeben habe: dennoch fürchtet sich ihre Schwester, die verstockte Juda, nicht, sondern geht hin und treibt auch Hurerei. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Kulihat, apabila sudah Kubuang Israel dan sudah Kuberikan surat talak kepadanya, karena sebab segala zinah yang dibuatnya, maka Yehuda, saudaranya yang khianat itu, tiada juga takut, melainkan pergilah ia juga lalu berbuat zinah. |
| Italian | ha visto che ho ripudiato la ribelle Israele proprio per tutti i suoi adultèri, consegnandole il documento del divorzio, ma la perfida Giuda sua sorella non ha avuto alcun timore. Anzi anch'essa è andata a prostituirsi; |
| Maori | A i kite ahau, i taku peinga atu i a Iharaira tahuri ke mo taua take nei ano, mo tona puremutanga, a i taku hoatutanga he pukapuka whakarere ki a ia, na kihai tona tuakana, a Hura tinihanga i wehi; heoi haere ana ano ia, kairau ana. |
| Norwegian | Og jeg så at enda jeg hadde latt den frafalne, Israel, fare og gitt henne hennes skilsmissebrev, fordi hun hadde drevet hor, fryktet allikevel ikke hennes søster Juda, den troløse, men gikk avsted og drev hor hun også; |
| Rumanian | Wi cu toate cq a vqzut cq M`am despqryit de necredincioasa Israel, din pricina tuturor preacurviilor ei, wi i-am dat cartea ei de despqryenie, totuw soru-sa, vicleana Iuda, nu s`a temut, ci s`a dus sq curveascq la fel. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "divorce": divorced, divorcee, divorcees, divorcement, divorcements, divorcer, divorcers, divorces. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "divorce": postdivorce. (additional references) | |
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"Divorce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: devoce, devoirce, devorce, devore, devorice, Dinorben, diverce, Divock, divoice, divorice, divorse, divource. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "divorce" (pronounced divô"rs) |
| 3 | -ô" r s | bourse, coarse, corse, course, endorse, enforce, force, hoarse, horse, midcourse, Morse, perforce, reinforce, remorse, source. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: codrive. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: cervid, devoir, voiced, voicer, voider. | |
-2 letters: cider, coder, cored, coved, cover, credo, cried, decor, dicer, diver, drive, drove, riced, rived, roved, viced, video, vireo, voice. | |
-3 letters: cedi, cero, cire, code, coed, coir, cord, core, cove, deco, dice, dire, dive, doer, dore, dove, iced, ired, odic, over, redo, rice, ride, rive, rode, rove, vice. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: coderive, codriven, codriver, codrives, coverlid, discover, divorced, divorcee, divorcer, divorces, revoiced. | |
+2 letters: coderived, coderives, codrivers, contrived, coverlids, discovers, discovery, divorcees, divorcers, varicosed. | |
+3 letters: coderiving, codiscover, decorative, discovered, discoverer, microwaved, overdirect, overpriced, productive, providence, rediscover. | |
+4 letters: bedcovering, codiscovers, deactivator, discoverers, discoveries, discovering, divorcement, overchilled, overclaimed, overdecking, overdirects, overexcited, postdivorce, providences, radioactive, reconceived, reconvicted, reconvinced, rediscovers, rediscovery, uncontrived, valedictory, varicolored, vociferated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 6F 72 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- --- .-. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01101111 01110010 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v o r c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 006F 0072 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758881846971 |
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