undivorce

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To undo or cancel a divorce.

   • 'Did you undivorce me?' " Rafer asked. Daddy explained that he had divorced only Rafer's mother, and off they went to the park.
   • "What's her angle?" I went on. "Surely after all these years the dame must have known she was divorced. Why in hell should she be trying to undivorce herself now?"
2. 2

   A marriage in which the partners remain married in name only.

   • We were Christians; Christians living in a state of undivorce.yet striving to keep the marriage together while living in great unpeace and disharmony.
   • My divorce was related to her undivorce, so the generations unfold back to back handing on their burdens — by contamination, memory, experience, identification, one's failure becomes the other's.
   • Max screams from the other room just as I am nodding off on my own couch, sorting through how I feel about the undivorce.
3. 3

   A state of not being divorced.

   • “They're not divorced. Not legally. Not even separated.” “She said they were.” “Uh huh. So now you've got to wonder why she was saying those things, don't you?” “How did you find out about the undivorce?”
   • Michael is not, in fact, interested in an undivorce, but in making our divorce more permanent.

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