離り合ごう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

meeting and parting; alliance and rupture

Literary or formal term for the cycle of coming together and separating, used for human relationships, alliances, or abstract unions. Often appears in set phrases like 離合集散.

• 人じん生せいは離り合ごうの繰くり返かえしだ。

  Life is a repetition of meetings and partings.

• 政せい党とうの離り合ごう集しゅう散さんが続つづいている。

  The political parties keep forming and breaking alliances.