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# divorce

noun (a divorce, divorces); verb (divorce, divorces, divorced, divorcing); adjective: divorced

«divorce» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife are no longer married. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#m1)
2. To end your marriage to someone by law. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#m2)
3. To separate two things completely (formal: you can't divorce sport from fun). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life many children have parents who are divorced or separated; families can still love and care for children after a divorce. In health and well-being lessons pupils learn that divorce is never a child's fault, and that it is fine to feel sad or angry and to talk to someone. In stories it can be a change the character must get used to. Phrases: get a divorce, get divorced, divorced parents.

### Examples

- My parents got divorced when I was five. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x1)
- A divorce is when a marriage ends by law. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x2)
- After the divorce, I stay with Dad at weekends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x3)
- It is never the child's fault when parents divorce. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x4)
- Lots of my friends have divorced parents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x5)
- They divorced but stayed good friends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x6)
- If your family changes, talk to someone you trust about how you feel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x7)
- The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x8)

### Note

Say «get divorced» or «divorce someone» (She divorced him); not «divorce with someone». «Separated» means living apart but still married; «divorced» means the marriage has legally ended.

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it means the legal ending of a marriage, and a divorced woman has special rules, such as for priests' marriages.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads these laws as the base of Jewish divorce law, which needs a written document, the get.

### Examples

- But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even every thing wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her. (Torah NUM.30.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divorce/#x1)
- A widow, or one divorced, or a profaned woman, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife. (Torah LEV.21.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divorce/#x2)
- But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof. (Torah LEV.22.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divorce/#x3)

### Note

Say «get divorced» or «divorce someone» (She divorced him); not «divorce with someone». «Separated» means living apart but still married; «divorced» means the marriage has legally ended.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «divorce» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«divorce» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/divorce.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «divorce» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divorce/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«divorce» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/divorce.html) on Mova free.