Word Meanings - DISESPOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To release from espousal or plighted faith. Milton.

Related words: (words related to DISESPOUSE)

• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• FAITHED
  Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. "Make thy words faithed." Shak.
• RELEASEMENT
  The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
• PLIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.
• PLIGHTER
  One who, or that which, plights.
• FAITH
  fr. L. fides; akin to fidere to trust, Gr. th is perhaps due to the influence of such words as truth, health, wealth. See Bid, Bide, and 1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• RELEASEE
  One to whom a release is given.
• RELEASER
  One who releases, or sets free.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• FAITHFUL
  1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson. 2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. The faithful God,
• ESPOUSAL
  sponsalia, fr. sponsalis belonging to betrothal or espousal. See 1. The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony. 2. The uniting
• LAMPLIGHTER
  The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• DROPLIGHT
  An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• LOOPLIGHT
  A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
• UNPLIGHT
  To unfold; to lay open; to explain. Chaucer.
• WELL-PLIGHTED
  Being well folded. "Her well-plighted frock." Spenser.
• TROTHPLIGHT
  To betroth.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• MISFAITH
  Want of faith; distrust. " born of your misfaith." Tennyson.
• TROTHPLIGHTED
  Having fidelity pledged.