dividing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DIVIDING, participle present tense 1. Parting; separating; distributing; disuniting; apportioning to each his share. 2. adjective That indicates separation or difference; as a dividing line. DIVIDING, noun Separation.
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