disseverment

noun

dis·​sev·​er·​ment di-ˈse-vər-mənt 

plural disseverments

: the act of dissevering something or the state of being dissevered : separation, disseverance

… since self-recognition as a People now entails recognition of the political disseverment of North and South.

—Mark Maslan, Whitman Possessed, 2003

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1603, in the meaning defined above

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