divulsion

divulsion (countable and uncountable, plural divulsions)

1. The act of separating by force, especially by dilation or pulling apart.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Tuileries), page 105:

     That sweet Federation was of last year; this sour Divulsion is the self-same substance, only older by the appointed days.