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noun

Dissolution n.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. "Dissolutions of ancient amities."

Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.

Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. "The dissolution of the compound."

The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. "Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament."

The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. "We expected Immediate dissolution."

The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. "A man of continual dissolution and thaw."

The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.

Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. "To make a present dissolution of the world."

Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. (Obs. or R.)

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"Dissolution" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the youth a knowledge of these language systems, and in a large number of cases we fail to attain adequately even this end. We build up laboriously systems of means which in after-life function directly in the attainment of no end, and as a consequence, in many cases, the dissolution of the system is as rapid as its acquisition was slow. At the time of the Renascence and when first introduced into the curriculum of the Secondary School, these languages, and especially Latin, did then possess ...

— The Children: Some Educational Problems • Alexander Darroch

... to be extraordinary that this woman had lived in their house, had worked and cared for them, and yet was so much a stranger to them that now, in this time of her coming dissolution, they did not know where her friends were to be found, whether indeed, she had any friends. "That's very English," Henry thought; "in Ireland we ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... on the understanding that other Liberals would be brought in according as vacancies occurred, and that the members of the council should hold their seats only upon the tenure of public confidence. A dissolution took place, the coalition government was sustained, and the Liberals came into the assembly with a majority. Mr. Howe was elected speaker of the assembly, though an executive councillor—without salary; but he and others began to recognise the impropriety of one man occupying ...

— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

... admitted the extent of their desolation. Life had been robbed of a magic,—a mystery. The solid friendship of years of mutual trust and understanding was the background of so much lovely folly, so many unrealized possibilities, so many nebulous desires and dreams that the sudden dissolution of their circle ...

— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... the Parliaments, or the Time of Arbitrariness: Jan. 22, 1654-55—Sept. 17, 1656.—Avowed "Arbitrariness" of this Stage of the Protectorate, and Reasons for it.—First Meeting of Cromwell and his Council after the Dissolution: Major-General Overton in Custody: Other Arrests: Suppression of a wide Republican Conspiracy and of Royalist Risings in Yorkshire and the West: Revenue Ordinance and Mr. Cony's Opposition at Law: Deference of Foreign Governments: Blake in ...

— The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 • David Masson

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