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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disjoin .
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Examples
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[The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power] [Noblesse oblige]
Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth? « Undercover 2009
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For Obama to pick a hawkish DLCer further disjoins his rhetoric from his actual political moves.
Top Liberal Bloggers Organizing On Facebook Against Evan Bayh As Veep 2009
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“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
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Where the world disjoins events in order to keep them quarantined from each other, chance serves to force events into a state of mutual collusion, but where the world conjoins events in order to keep them adulterated with each other, chance serves to force events into a state of mutual dispersal.
Bits and Bites with updates Lemon Hound 2008
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Where the world disjoins events in order to keep them quarantined from each other, chance serves to force events into a state of mutual collusion, but where the world conjoins events in order to keep them adulterated with each other, chance serves to force events into a state of mutual dispersal.
Archive 2008-02-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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It neither joins nor disjoins concepts to form judgments, as the human mind does; nor does it put judgments together in a process of reasoning that leads to a conclusion.
The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982
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But no words can be stronger than those in which he disjoins himself from that "evil and foolish company," and claims his independence --
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Distinguishing its elements and parts, it gives them separate names, and what it thus disjoins it cannot easily put together.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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It disjoins belief from its only safe ground, experience.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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The promontory, or peninsula, which disjoins these two bays, I named Traitor's
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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