sejunction

English

Etymology

From Latin sejunctio. See sejoin, sejunct.

Noun

sejunction (countable and uncountable, plural sejunctions)

1. (obsolete) The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
   • 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:

     The constitution of that people was made by a sejunction and separation of them from all other nations on the earth: and this began in Abraham […]

2. (psychology) An interruption of the continuity of association-complexes which leads to a breaking up of the personality.