disˈjointure
[f. disjoint v. + -ure, after jointure. Cf. OF. desjointure (in Godef.).]
The state of being disjointed; disconnexion, separation.
| 1757 Conway Lett. in Fraser's Mag. (1850) XLI. 424 There is more disjointure to our affairs..than any coalition of our ministers can retrieve. 1879 Tourgee Fool's Err. xix. 104 The disjointure of opinion between them and the Yankee schoolmarms was all because the latter wanted to measure them by Northern ideas of these virtues. |