Division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination.
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Recent opinion polls have shown public opinion is split on the issue.
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However, they confirmed their split earlier this month following weeks of speculation.
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We know what happens when countries split along these lines: Trump happens.
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The government will introduce legislation allowing parents to split paid parental leave.
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Although some say a split is good for financial markets, I disagree.
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He lived in the time of the schism of Acacius of Constantinople.
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Yet no schism will assail the general order of the body politic.
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The schism rent the French evangelicals before it seriously affected the church.
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Thus was the unhappy schism between the East and the West accomplished.
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So there was a definite schism in place already, a fault line.
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Therefore the sin of schism is graver than the sin of unbelief.
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The schism which had divided the Whig party was now completely healed.
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The thought of split and schism was pain and grief to most.
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I hoped the schism didn't run too deep for anyone to reach.
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Objection 1: It would seem that schism is not a special sin.
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The clergy waited with impatience for this opportunity of exciting a schism.
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Syntara has chosen, and from this a schism now threatens us all.
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She would have done anything to halt a schism in the NUWSS.
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No discord or schism of sect or creed ever disturbed its atmosphere.
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If there has been a schism here, we know nothing about it.
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This physiological catastrophe, this schism increases the baby's dependence on the mother.
