divestiture

All this, says the American former diplomat, amounts to a “day-by-day divestiture of government authority.”

But I think American Jews on the whole are not pro-divestiture.

He is more puzzled over this problem of divestiture than any other, and finds the solution of it only in "sexual selection."

This divestiture of sensation proceeds to such an extent that there is nothing left beyond what M. Villey calls the pure form.