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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disunite .
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Examples
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Isana: For your information, DPM, what 'disunites' (the proper term is 'awakened') the
Brudirect News1 2010
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The tendency to use crime in order to score political points can only play into the hands of criminals as it disunites the efforts of fighting this scourge.
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Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy.
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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By truth, now an avenging flame, the very soul is melted like metal in a furnace; it dissolves all, but destroys nothing; it disunites the first elements of life, yet the sufferer can never die.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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Listen to our astronomers talk about the magnitudes and disunites and composition of the stars, and compare with their story that which was written in the astronomy of a few centuries ago.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Grenville Kleiser 1910
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I should have said that slander is a restless evil, which disturbs society, spreads dissension through cities and countries, disunites the strictest friendships; is the source of hatred and revenge; fills, wherever it enters, with disturbances and confusion; and everywhere is an enemy to peace, comfort, and Christian good-breeding.
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This excess in value above the half of the just price, the said emperor and king of Castilla relinquishes for himself and his successors, and disunites the same from the royal crown of his kingdoms forever, and delivers it entire to the said King of Portugal, to him and to his successors and crown of his kingdoms, really and effectually, in the aforesaid manner, and during the time of this contract.
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And I once again regretted the unhappy distrust that severs and disunites us, whereas all our weaknesses interwoven might be garlands of strength and love crowning the life of men.
The Choice of Life Georgette Leblanc 1905
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It isolates, disunites, and tends to annihilate not only its opposite but itself.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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Castruccio's character is also well described: his devoted attachment to Euthanasia from which nothing could turn him, till the passions of the conqueror and party faction are still stronger; and the irresistible force which impels him to make war and subdue the Guelphs, which by her is regarded as murder and rapine, disunites beings seemingly formed for each other.
Mrs Shelley Rossetti, Lucy M 1890
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