All 5 Uses of
dissolution
in
War and Peace
- In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable.†
Chpt 11 *
- Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution.†
Chpt 13
- Various groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displacement of peoples was in course of preparation.†
Chpt 15
- On his return from Italy he finds the government in Paris in a process of dissolution in which all those who are in it are inevitably wiped out and destroyed.†
Chpt 15
- When, intoxicated by the crimes he has committed so successfully, he reaches Paris, the dissolution of the republican government, which a year earlier might have ruined him, has reached its extreme limit, and his presence there now as a newcomer free from party entanglements can only serve to exalt him—and though he himself has no plan, he is quite ready for his new role.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(dissolution) to end a relationship or meeting; or to terminate a legal entity such as a corporation
or in chemistry: the process in which one substance is dissolved in another; or the separation of a compound into its components by chemical action