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Separation   /sˌɛpərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Separation

noun
1.
The state of lacking unity.
2.
Coming apart.  Synonyms: breakup, detachment.
3.
The distance between things.  Synonym: interval.
4.
Sorting one thing from others.  "The separation of mail by postal zones"
5.
The social act of separating or parting company.
6.
The space where a division or parting occurs.
7.
The termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal).
8.
(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order).  Synonym: legal separation.
9.
The act of dividing or disconnecting.



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"Separation" Quotes from Famous Books



... nadir of his dejection when he received a letter in a well-known handwriting, that of a woman who had strongly attracted him four years before by her beauty, grace, and elevation of mind. Separation cut short the incipient love-affair, and Cavour never thought of renewing it. With the woman it was otherwise; from her first meeting with the youth of twenty to the day of her death, absent or present, he was the object of an idolatry in which all her faculties united: her being ...
— Cavour • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
 
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... the savage war-whoops announced that their enemies were upon them; but undismayed by the terrible dangers, they resolved to die together rather than endure separation. ...
— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss
 
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... of his advice to his sister, Howard was the most disconsolate member of the party, as they sat on the Everetts' front steps, talking of the separation in store ...
— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray
 
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... it. Especially did those writers who are commonly counted Dickens's superiors in art and exactitude and closeness to connected reality. Thackeray wallowed in it; Anthony Trollope lived on it. Those modern artists who pride themselves most on the separation and unity of a work of art have indulged in it often; thus, for instance, Stevenson gave a glimpse of Alan Breck in The Master of Ballantrae, and meant to give a glimpse of the Master of Ballantrae in another unwritten tale called The Rising Sun. The habit of revising old characters ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
 
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... civil rights of our citizens when—as, for example, in his encyclical letter of December 8, 1874—he commands all Catholics to treat the liberty of speech, of the press, of conscience and of worship, the separation of Church and State and the secular education of youth, as "reprobatas, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various
 
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