All 4 Uses of
sever
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- HENRY: (Caressing on his breast a severed female head, murmurs) Thine heart, mine love.†
Chpt 15 *
- Exeunt severally.†
Chpt 15
- …moment in a loving position locked in one another's arms, drawing attention to their illicit proceedings and leading up to a domestic rumpus and the erring fair one begging forgiveness of her lord and master upon her knees and promising to sever the connection and not receive his visits any more if only the aggrieved husband would overlook the matter and let bygones be bygones with tears in her eyes though possibly with her tongue in her fair cheek at the same time as quite possibly…†
Chpt 16
- And later on at a propitious opportunity he purposed (Bloom did), without anyway prying into his private affairs on the fools step in where angels principle, advising him to sever his connection with a certain budding practitioner who, he noticed, was prone to disparage and even to a slight extent with some hilarious pretext when not present, deprecate him, or whatever you like to call it which in Bloom's humble opinion threw a nasty sidelight on that side of a person's character, no…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(sever) to split something into two unconnected parts -- usually by cutting
or:
to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something