Meanings of dissever in English

He strove to unfasten her girdle, but might not dissever the clasp.

To dissever them without injury to the written spaces was by no means easy.

But all her childish reasoning could not dissever the two.

Woe, woe to the heart that would dare to dissever!

Bill seemed to shatter friendships and dissever old alliances.

So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon.

A world that doth ne'er dissever

Nothing can greatly hurt us now, for are we not one in bonds that no man may dissever?

Henceforth nothing shall dissever us!

And how, then, must I, too, go to work to dissever that sweet and peaceful union of soul and body?

It must not be supposed that in thus opposing unreasonable views of social affections, anything is done to dissever such affections.

They later decided to look for plastic in the collected specimens and were shocked to dissever just how widespread the problem is.

I mean, that you cannot get away from this place-youcannot dissever yourself from the people you have been living with, too soon.

You attempt to live your life on one side only, to dissever that which was made for unity, and calamity comes to crush you.

No matter how much Russia has prepared, however, unanticipated issues will almost certainly arise if it tries to dissever from the rest of the world.

And hence, to natures like Isaura's, that link between the woman and the priest, which the philosophy of France has never been able to dissever.