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separateness

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Separate  \Sep"a*rate\,  p.  a.  [L.  separatus  p.  p.  ] 
  1.  Divided  from  another  or  others  disjoined;  disconnected; 
  separated;  --  said  of  things  once  connected. 
 
  Him  that  was  separate  from  his  brethren.  --Gen. 
  xlix.  26. 
 
  2.  Unconnected;  not  united  or  associated;  distinct;  --  said 
  of  things  that  have  not  been  connected. 
 
  For  such  an  high  priest  became  us  who  is  holy, 
  harmless,  undefiled,  separate  from  sinnere.  --Heb. 
  vii.  26. 
 
  3.  Disunited  from  the  body;  disembodied;  as  a  separate 
  spirit;  the  separate  state  of  souls. 
 
  {Separate  estate}  (Law),  an  estate  limited  to  a  married  woman 
  independent  of  her  husband. 
 
  {Separate  maintenance}  (Law),  an  allowance  made  to  a  wife  by 
  her  husband  under  deed  of  separation.  --  {Sep"a*rate*ly}, 
  adv  --  {Sep"a*rate*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  separateness 
  n  1:  the  state  of  being  several  and  distinct  [syn:  {discreteness}, 
  {distinctness},  {severalty}] 
  2:  political  independence;  "seeking  complete  political 
  separateness  for  Taiwan" 
  3:  the  quality  of  being  not  alike;  being  distinct  or  different 
  from  that  otherwise  experienced  or  known  [syn:  {otherness}, 
  {distinctness}]




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