Definition of Sundering

1. Verb. (present participle of sunder) ¹

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Definition of Sundering

1. sunder [v] - See also: sunder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundering

sundaes
sundance
sundances
sundari
sundaris
sundart
sundarts
sundeck
sundecks
sunder
sunder out
sunderance
sundered
sunderer
sunderers
sundering
sunderling
sunders
sundew
sundew family
sundew plant
sundews
sundial
sundial lupine
sundials
sundiusite
sundog
sundogs
sundown
sundown syndrome

Literary usage of Sundering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... Sundering, 'floundering', plunging and tossing; ' Th' unruly flun- dring steeds', H. More, ... Sundering."

2. Books and Personalities by Henry Woodd Nevinson (1905)
"The Last of Romances ^HE Sundering Flood " is the sixth and last of the prose tales of pure imagination which Morris gave us towards the end of his life, ..."

3. Pennsylvania, Province and State: A History from 1609 to 1790 by Albert Sidney Bolles (1899)
"... the sundering of that relationship, the true public sentiment burst forth. Never has the remark of Montesquieu, that as freedom advances the severity of ..."

4. Christianity in the United States from the First Settlement Down to the by Daniel Dorchester (1888)
"Sundering of Ecclesiastico-Civil Ties. But the influence of this great contest was not altogether disadvantageous. The great struggles and sacrifices were ..."

5. The Old and Middle English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1878)
"... handed over to the Danes by Alfred.1 This line I make bold to call the Great Sundering Line; I only wish I could write Tongue-shed, like water-shed. ..."

6. The Old and Middle English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1878)
"... shires that were first settled by Angles and afterwards handed over to the Danes by Alfred.1 This line I make bold to call the Great Sundering Line; ..."

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