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undivorce

verb

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From un- + divorce.

  1. A marriage in which the partners remain married in name only.

    We were Christians; Christians living in a state of undivorce.yet striving to keep the marriage together while living in great unpeace and disharmony.

    My divorce was related to her undivorce, so the generations unfold back to back handing on their burdens — by contamination, memory, experience, identification, one's failure becomes the other's.

  2. A state of not being divorced.

    “They're not divorced. Not legally. Not even separated.” “She said they were.” “Uh huh. So now you've got to wonder why she was saying those things, don't you?” “How did you find out about the undivorce?”

    Michael is not, in fact, interested in an undivorce, but in making our divorce more permanent.

verb

Etymology: From un- + divorce.

  1. To undo or cancel a divorce.

    'Did you undivorce me?' " Rafer asked. Daddy explained that he had divorced only Rafer's mother, and off they went to the park.

    An interesting presentation of the implications of this divorce between producer and consumer can be found in Toffler (1980), who uses the terms second wave to refer to the modern era and third wave to refer to the more postmodern perspectives where attempts are made to undivorce (remarry?) the two.