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Separation

noun

The state of lacking unity.

Coming apart. Synonyms: breakup, detachment.

The distance between things. Synonym: interval.

Sorting one thing from others. "The separation of mail by postal zones"

The social act of separating or parting company.

The space where a division or parting occurs.

The termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal).

(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order). Synonym: legal separation.

The act of dividing or disconnecting.

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"Separation" Quotes from Famous Books

... to reaffirm that the great break in this series lies between Hapale and Lemur, and that this break is considerably greater than that between any other two terms of that series. Professor Bischoff ignores the fact that long before he wrote, Gratiolet had suggested the separation of the Lemurs from the other Primates on the very ground of the difference in their cerebral characters; and that Professor Flower had made the following observations in the course of his description of the brain of the Javan ...

— Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of Brain in Man and the Apes • Thomas Henry Huxley

... due to Giles to say that he did not stab in the dark. He had qualities of character that under better constitutional arrangements would have invigorated the functions of the House as an organ of control, but at that time, with the separation that had been introduced between the House and the Administration, his energy was mischievous and his intrepidity was a misfortune to himself and ...

— Washington and His Colleagues • Henry Jones Ford

... Fanny, and himself; there might, even, be two more, Helena and Gregory; yes, and William Loyd Grove. What a stinking mess it was all turning out to be. Why wasn't life, why weren't women, reasonable? But he could not convince himself that anything final—a separation—threatened them. Fanny couldn't force an admission from him, nor speak of this, investigate it, anywhere else. Savina was well able to take care of herself. There was nothing to do but wait. In the process of that he once ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... "through a glass darkly, through ordinances and senses," but there must be an inward teaching and speaking to your souls to make that effectual, "the anointing teacheth you of all things," 1 John ii. 27. Alas! it is the separation of that from the word that makes it so unprofitable. If the Spirit of God were inwardly writing what the word is teaching then should your souls be "living epistles, that ye might read God's name on them." O! be much in imploring of and depending on him that teacheth to profit, who only can ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... mother and sisters as they stood by the windows and got their last look of the procession as it wound down the road. To go to a foreign land in those days signified to those who went, lifelong exile,—to those who tarried, lifelong separation. The only highways to the far East were by way of the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The voyages were always long ...

— Forty Years in South China - The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. • Rev. John Gerardus Fagg

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