Definition of Dissolution

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Dissolution

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.

Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.

The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.

The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.

The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.

The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.

Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.

Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.

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Dissolution Quotations

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
Mikhail Bakunin

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
Adam Clarke

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
Johan Huizinga

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
Kit Bond

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.
Terry Riley

Dissolution Translations

dissolution in Italian is dissoluzione

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