Both Uses of
severance
in
Middlemarch
- He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work.†
Chpt 2
- When he had parted from her before, he had been in ignorance of facts which gave a new aspect to the relation between them, and made a more absolute severance than he had then believed in.†
Chpt 6 *
Definition:
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(severance as in: severance pay) pay and potentially other benefits given to an employee whose job is eliminated