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Dissoluble   Listen
adjective
Dissoluble  adj.  
1.
Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.
2.
Capable of being disunited.





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"Dissoluble" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing most meant to move her only made her shudder; for in her heart of hearts she knew that he was ineradicably false. To be married to one constitutionally untrue would be more terrible a fate for her than to be linked to him in a lighter, more dissoluble a bond. So do the greatest tricksters of this world overdo their part, so play the wrong card when every past experience suggests it is the card to play. He knew by the silence that followed his words, and the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... op. cit. p. 163; Marq. Privatleben, p. 87 foll. Confarreatio was only dissoluble by diffarreatio, but this was perhaps used only for penal purposes. Other forms of marriage did not present the same difficulty, not being ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... in a European community we mean by marriage a union between two persons of opposite sexes, entered into with due legal formalities, and not dissoluble simply at the will of either or both the parties concerned. When we go further afield the connotation of the term is extended to embrace (1) polygyny, in which one male is associated with two or more females, (2) polyandry, ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas


Words linked to "Dissoluble" :   dissolubility, soluble


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