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Definition of Divorced
1. Adjective. Of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved.
Definition of Divorced
1. Adjective. cut off, or separated ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a marriage) legally dissolved ¹
3. Adjective. having had one's marriage legally dissolved ¹
4. Verb. (past of divorce) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Divorced
1. divorce [v] - See also: divorce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divorced
Literary usage of Divorced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"absolutely divorced from said George P. Oi-crhi-лг. He died June 14, 189(5.
and letters testamentary were issued to the plaintiff. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Such foreign statistics as are available show that restriction upon the remarriage
of divorced persons would not in a large degree affect the divorce rate. ..."
3. The Historical Development of the Poor Law in Connecticut by Edward Warren Capen (1905)
"SUPPORT OF CHILDREN BY divorced PARENTS In 1854 an ... In the following year this
position was enacted into law.4 divorced parents were made liable for the ..."
4. Social Aspects of the Treatment of the Insane by Jacob Alter Goldberg (1921)
"(e) divorced. There were only two cases of divorced persons dying in the state
hospitals, and both of these were men who had been sick for many years prior ..."
5. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1862)
"... pronounced divorced, and the divorce did not nounced * ' is pro- save
her.f Friday, the 19th, was fixed for her death; and when she found that there was ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1882)
"Right of One divorced Spouse to sue the ... that a divorced wife cannot maintain
an action against her divorced husband upon an implied contract arising ..."
7. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"He warmly supported Lord Auckland's bill to forbid a marriage between a woman
divorced for adultery and her paramour. He said, " he did not think it would ..."
8. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"REPUDIABLE, that may be put away or divorced. ... Л REPUDIATE [«^Ы.., L.]
a divorced woman, one put away, KEPU'LSE [with ..."
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