Division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination.
Division of a group into opposing factions.
1 He lived in the time of the schism of Acacius of Constantinople.
2 Yet no schism will assail the general order of the body politic.
3 The schism rent the French evangelicals before it seriously affected the church.
4 Thus was the unhappy schism between the East and the West accomplished.
5 So there was a definite schism in place already, a fault line.
6 Therefore the sin of schism is graver than the sin of unbelief.
7 The schism which had divided the Whig party was now completely healed.
8 The thought of split and schism was pain and grief to most.
9 I hoped the schism didn't run too deep for anyone to reach.
10 Objection 1: It would seem that schism is not a special sin.
11 The clergy waited with impatience for this opportunity of exciting a schism .
12 Syntara has chosen, and from this a schism now threatens us all.
13 She would have done anything to halt a schism in the NUWSS.
14 No discord or schism of sect or creed ever disturbed its atmosphere.
15 If there has been a schism here, we know nothing about it.
16 This physiological catastrophe, this schism increases the baby's dependence on the mother.
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