Estrangement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: estrangementEstrangement
The act of estranging or the state of being estranged alienation...
Estranger
One who estranges...
Estrangedness
State of being estranged estrangement...
indignity
indignity pl: -ties : persistent and intolerable behavior toward a spouse esp. as a manifestation of settled estrangement ...
separated
separated : being in a state of estrangement between spouses usually requiring the maintenance of separate residences and the intent to live apart permanently : being in a state of separation [has been for a year] ...
separation
separation 1 : cessation of cohabitation between a married couple by mutual agreement with intent that it be permanent ;also : legal separation compare divorce NOTE: In some cases in which the estrangement is extreme, a separation is considered to have occurred even when the couple retain the same residence if they have stopped communicating and engaging in sexual relations and intend to be separated. 2 : termination of a contractual relationship (as employment or military service) ...
Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
Estrange
To withdraw to withhold hence reflexively to keep at a distance to cease to be familiar and friendly with...
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