Both Uses of
dissociate
in
Great Expectations
- Mr. Wopsle had greatly alarmed me more than once, by his blowing and hard breathing; but I knew the sounds by this time, and could dissociate them from the object of pursuit.†
Chpt 5 *
- Truly it was impossible to dissociate her presence from all those wretched hankerings after money and gentility that had disturbed my boyhood, —from all those ill-regulated aspirations that had first made me ashamed of home and Joe,—from all those visions that had raised her face in the glowing fire, struck it out of the iron on the anvil, extracted it from the darkness of night to look in at the wooden window of the forge, and flit away.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
end association with
In recent times, people have begun to use "disassociate" in place of "dissociate"; though both are in active use.