Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DIVORCE
DIVORCE
Definitions of DIVORCE
- The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- A separation of connected things.
- The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
- (obsolete) That which separates.
- (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
- (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
- (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
- (transitive) To separate something that was connected.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DIVORCE in a Sentence
- The termination of legally recognized family relationships and ancillary matters, including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, child custody and visitation, child support and alimony awards.
- Handfasting is a traditional practice that, depending on the term's usage, may define an unofficiated wedding (in which a couple marries without an officiant, usually with the intent of later undergoing a second wedding with an officiant), a betrothal (an engagement in which a couple has formally promised to wed, and which can be broken only through divorce), or a temporary wedding (in which a couple makes an intentionally temporary marriage commitment).
- Having successfully campaigned on several liberalising issues as a senator and as a lawyer, Robinson was involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality, the legalisation of contraception, the legalisation of divorce, enabling women to sit on juries, and securing the right to legal aid in civil legal cases in Ireland.
- Men's rights activists (MRAs) and other masculinist groups have characterized modern laws concerning divorce, domestic violence, conscription, circumcision (known as male genital mutilation by opponents), and treatment of male rape victims as examples of institutional misandry.
- The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in an Anglican newspaper called The Guardian in 1944 and 1945 and soon thereafter in book form.
- In 2013, the Economist Intelligence Unit's Where-to-be-born Index, which takes into account material well-being as measured by GDP per capita, life expectancy, political stability, the quality of family life based on divorce rates, community life, crime and terrorism rates, gender equality, the quality of governance, climate, and unemployment rates, ranked the United States at 16th place, tied with Germany.
- Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union.
- He advocated individual and economic freedoms, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and (in an unpublished essay) the decriminalising of homosexual acts.
- July – Elagabalus is forced to divorce Aquilia Severa, and marries his third wife Annia Faustina.
- New York divorce law changed on August 15, 2010, when Governor David Paterson signed no-fault divorce into law in New York state.
- Proponents assert it would end legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.
- It is based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, written by Dwight Taylor, with Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein adapting an unproduced play by J.
- Based on the 1922 play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman, the film recounts a distrustful rich couple who begin divorce proceedings, only to interfere with one another's romances.
- When people marry or divorce, the legal aspects of changing names may be simplified or included, so that the new name is established as part of the legal process of marrying or divorcing.
- In 1809, Lucien Bonaparte came under pressure from his brother Napoleon to divorce his wife, Alexandrine de Bleschamp, and return to France from his Italian estates, where he was a virtual prisoner, needing permission to leave his own land.
- Her troubled marriage to boxer Mike Tyson in 1988 drew considerable media attention, as did their acrimonious divorce.
- His first wife was Mayer's daughter Irene Selznick, who became a highly successful Broadway producer after their divorce, and his second wife was Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones.
- The film's concept was based on an imaginary friend that Spielberg created after his parents' divorce.
- He was a Byzantine noble and senior official in Constantinople when the dying Constantine VIII forced him to divorce his wife and marry the emperor's daughter Zoë.
- Her parents' divorce when she was seven resulted in Hobart and her sister, Polly, going to France to live with their grandmother.
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