Both Uses of
dissolution
in
Northanger Abbey
- …the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both, it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty, each to endeavour to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their…†
Chpt 10 *
- …were her thoughts, that when these inquiries were answered, she was hardly more assured than before, of Northanger Abbey having been a richly endowed convent at the time of the Reformation, of its having fallen into the hands of an ancestor of the Tilneys on its dissolution, of a large portion of the ancient building still making a part of the present dwelling although the rest was decayed, or of its standing low in a valley, sheltered from the north and east by rising woods of oak.†
Chpt 17
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