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put asunder

verb

Etymology

From put + asunder.

  1. inherited from *senH-✻ — “apart; for oneself; without”
  2. inherited from *sundraz✻ — “alone, separate”
  3. inherited from *sundr✻
  4. inherited from *h₂en-✻ — “on, onto”
  5. inherited from onsundrum
  6. inherited from asunder
  7. formed as put asunder — “put + asunder”

Definitions

  1. To sunder

    To sunder; disjoin; separate.

    • What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.
    • Luther touched on an additional argument that when a Christian magistrate "puts asunder" a marriage, he is in fact operating as God, since he is God's vice-regent.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA