Word Meanings - DISRUPTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disruption. Jefferson.

JEFFERSONIA
An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves ; twinleaf.
JEFFERSONIAN
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.
DISRUPTION
The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
JEFFERSONITE
A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President , eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort,