Crossword-Solution: DIVULSION 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Pretty children, all of them, more or less; and towardly, and comfortable to a Father;--and the worst of them a paragon of beauty, in comparison to perverse, clandestine, disobedient Fritz, with his French fopperies, flutings, and cockatoo fashions of hair!-- And so the silent divulsion, silent on Fritz's part, exploding loud enough now and then on his Father's part, goes steadily on, splitting ever wider; new offences ever superadding themselves.

This also afflicts me, that the mischief which nearest threatens us, is not an alteration in the entire and solid mass, but its dissipation and divulsion, which is the most extreme of our fears.

Already the scientific statesman of the Elizabethan age could say, casting an eye over Christendom as it stood then, 'That which most threatens us is, not an _alteration_ in the entire and solid mass, but its _dissipation_ and _divulsion_.' It is after pages of the freest philosophical discussion, that he arrives at this conclusion--discussion, in which the historical elements and powers are for the first time scientifically recognized and treated throughout with the hand of the new master.

For the parts of _Quick-Silver_, being so very similar and congruous to each other, if once united, will not easily suffer a divulsion: And the parts of water, that were any wayes _heterogeneous_, being by _exantlation_ or rarefaction exhausted, the remaining parts being also very similar, will not easily part neither.

The following are irregularities: adhesion assertion attention coercion cohesion crucifixion declension dimension dissension distortion divulsion expulsion impulsion insertion intention occasion propulsion recursion repulsion revulsion scansion suspicion tension version Words ending in _-ance_, _-ence_; _-ancy_, _-ency_; _-ant_, and _-ent_, often cause confusion when carelessly written.