Definition of Divorce

Divorce

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."

The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

Separation; disunion of things closely united.

That which separates.

To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

To separate or disunite; to sunder.

To make away; to put away.

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Divorce Quotations

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Lee Trevino

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler

I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.
Rupert Grint

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
Hedy Lamarr

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
Hedy Lamarr

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Hedy Lamarr

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman Mailer

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Cary Grant

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Jim Carrey

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
Kato Kaelin

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Divorce Translations

divorce in Danish is skilsmisse
divorce in Dutch is echtscheiding, scheiding
divorce in German is scheiden, Ehescheidung, Scheidung
divorce in Italian is divorzio
divorce in Latin is abruptio
divorce in Norwegian is skildmisse, skilles
divorce in Spanish is divorcio

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