divorce
part of speech
noun (a divorce, divorces); verb (divorce, divorces, divorced, divorcing); adjective: divorced
meaning for a pupil
1) The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife are no longer married. tree →
2) To end your marriage to someone by law. tree →
3) To separate two things completely (formal: you can't divorce sport from fun). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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
- 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- My parents got divorced when I was five. tree →
- A divorce is when a marriage ends by law. tree →
- After the divorce, I stay with Dad at weekends. tree →
- It is never the child's fault when parents divorce. tree →
- Lots of my friends have divorced parents. tree →
- They divorced but stayed good friends. tree →
- If your family changes, talk to someone you trust about how you feel. tree →
- The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. tree →
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 the corpora
- Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.
- A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce came through" means the court has finished it.
- A divorce can feel sad and also a relief, because a long, hard process is over.
- Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.
- "Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «divorce» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.