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The term "dissever" is employed in literature to depict both tangible and intangible separations. In some contexts it refers to a violent, physical breaking apart—illustrated by its use when describing the literal separation of body parts in battle or by force ([1], [2])—while in other contexts it conveys the severing of deep emotional or conceptual bonds, as when lovers insist that nothing can separate their hearts ([3], [4], [5]). It also appears in philosophical and abstract discussions, where minds or ideas are depicted as inextricably linked, making any effort to divide them almost impossible ([6], [7]). Thus, "dissever" enriches the narrative by imbuing the act of separation with a sense of irrevocable loss and the profound nature of unity.
  1. Then I dropt him in horror, but felt as I fled The stone he indignantly hurl'd at my head, That dissever'd my
    — from The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
  2. So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon.
    — from Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Brander Matthews
  3. For though he was the enemy of my race and my country, yet I loved him with such a love that nothing could dissever my heart from him.
    — from The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan
  4. "Our destinies are inseparably united, and death only [Pg 172] can dissever us.
    — from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue
  5. You become the friend, the brother of Buonaparte, and at once attach him to you by a bond which no vicissitudes can dissever.’
    — from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor
  6. In matters of this sort philosophers, above all other men, may be observed in every sort of way to dissever the soul from the communion of the body.
    — from Phaedo by Plato
  7. The natural procedure of thought, is to combine, rather than to dissever, when we marshal facts for the purpose of a full and wide generalization.
    — from The Philosophy of Natural TheologyAn Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

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