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the slow art of coming apart, whether it's a marriage, a parliament, or a sugar cube
means The act or process of breaking up, dissolving, or ending something — a substance into liquid, an organization or partnership into nothing, or a body like a parliament into recess.
from From Latin 'dissolutio,' a noun built from 'dissolvere,' to loosen apart — 'dis-' (apart) plus 'solvere' (to loosen, release), the same verb that gives us 'solve' and 'solvent.' So at its root it's simply the undoing of a knot, whether that knot is a chemical bond, a contract, or a governing assembly. English borrowed it through Old French in the medieval period, and over time it picked up a moral shading too — 'dissolute' came to describe a life loosened from all restraint.
- royal weapon
- Henry VIII dissolved 800 monasteries to fund himself
- chemistry
- breaking bonds so solids vanish into liquid
- latin root
- dissolvere means to loosen apart utterly
- legal end
- how corporations and parliaments are officially terminated
- opposite
- resolution rebuilds what dissolution undoes
dissolution of the monasteries — henry viii closed english monasteries and seized their lands from 1536-1540