Literary notes about dissever (AI summary)
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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - "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 - 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 - 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 - 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