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Sever v. t. (past & past part. severed; pres. part. severing)

1.

To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body. "The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just."

2.

To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg. "Our state can not be severed; we are one."

3.

To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt. "I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there."

4.

(Law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.

Sever v. i.

1.

To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.

2.

To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. "The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt." "They claimed the right of severing in their challenge."

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"Sever" Quotes from Famous Books

... of notes, at last, With "love" and "dove," and "sever" "never"— Though hope, though passion may be past, Their perfume is as ...

— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker

... fondly hop'd to clasp, A friend whom death alone could sever, But envy with malignant grasp, Has torn thee from my breast ...

— Fugitive Pieces • George Gordon Noel Byron

... recognition of the saint's holiness and appeal to his protection so touched his heart as to lead to a change of life. Another story refers his conversion to grief at the death of his wife. Mr. Baring-Gould tells us that: "So completely did he sever himself from the world, that it was supposed by some that he had been murdered by Conan, his successor. He retired to a cell on the sands in the parish of St. Merryn, near Padstow, where there was a well, and where he could be ...

— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon

... to the disquieted Winterborne waiting in the lane below, Dr. Jones went home and wrote to Mr. Melbury at the London address he had obtained from his wife. The gist of his communication was that Mrs. Fitzpiers should be assured as soon as possible that steps were being taken to sever the bond which was becoming a torture to her; that she would soon be free, and was even then virtually so. "If you can say it AT ONCE it may be the means of averting much harm," he said. "Write ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... Union—an origin akin to that of the Constitution of the United States, conceived in the same spirit of fraternal affection, and calculated to remove forever the only danger which seemed to threaten, at some distant day, to sever the social bond of union. All the evidences of public opinion at that day seemed to indicate that this compromise had been canonized in the hearts of the American people, as a sacred thing which no ruthless hand would ever be reckless enough ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

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