Disjoin vs Sunder - What's the difference?
disjoin | sunder | Synonyms |
To separate; to disunite.
* Milton
* Addison
* Pennant
To become separated.
To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
In transitive terms the difference between disjoin and sunder
is that disjoin is to separate; to disunite while sunder is to break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.In intransitive terms the difference between disjoin and sunder
is that disjoin is to become separated while sunder is to part, separate.As an adjective sunder is
sundry; separate; different.As a noun sunder is
a separation into parts; a division or severance.disjoin
English
Verb
(en verb)- That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins .
- Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
- Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
External links
* * *sunder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
citation, genre= , publisher=Llumina Press , isbn=9781932047233 , page=69 , passage=… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders' into things; he saw Knowledge before it '''sunders''' into knowing; he saw Integrity before it '''sunders''' in integrals; he saw Unity before it ' sunders into units. }}
- (Halliwell)
Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.