Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective unconnected, detached.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disjoin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective have the connection undone; having become separate
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Examples
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Bulak is the port suburb on the Nile, till 1858 wholly disjoined from the City; and Fostat is the outlier popularly called Old
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"And here, let me add, (apart from any consideration already adverted to,) that, as a matter of mere policy, I would not, if I could, have my name disjoined from abolitionism.
Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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"And here, let me add, (apart from any consideration already adverted to,) that, as a matter of mere policy, I would not, if I could, have my name disjoined from abolitionism.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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"And here, let me add, (apart from any consideration already adverted to,) that, as a matter of mere policy, I would not, if I could, have my name disjoined from abolitionism.
Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Two more joined them shortlyto my relief, neither was the one whose arm Bayard had disjoined in the recent struggle, for I was sure that whatever was to be done to us was soon to be put to a vote.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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What we all need is to continue Romola Nijinsky's instinctive inclination towards connecting the similar yet disjoined, and then utilize these developments towards real contributions for the evolution of a culture's body of knowledge in the broadest scope possible.
Linda Constant: The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy 2010
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“Imagination cannot conceive how disjoined I was,” he noted, “how internally, externally and universally I was unsettled, mixed up and ruptured.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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“Imagination cannot conceive how disjoined I was,” he noted, “how internally, externally and universally I was unsettled, mixed up and ruptured.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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It consists primarily of irregular plains and bluffs near the Mississippi River, along with some disjoined low hills found within the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (73).
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Sensing a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain, one senses it disjoined from it.
A Verb for Nirvana by Thanissaro Bhikkhu William Harryman 2009
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