
1) Acrimonious division 2) Big break 3) Church division 4) Church split 5) Coming-apart 6) Dichotomy 7) Disharmony 8) Division 9) Division in a church 10) Division into factions 11) Division or disunion 12) Doctrinal rift 13) French word used in English 14) Major rift 15) Party split 16) Philosophical rift
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1) Disunion 2) Disunity 3) Division 4) Heterodoxy 5) Rent 6) Rift 7) Sect 8) Split
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A schism (pronounced m {respell|siz|əm}, m {respell|skiz|əm} or, less commonly, m {respell|shiz|əm}) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination. The word is most frequently applied to a split in what had previously been a single religious body, such as the East–West Schism or the Gr...
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• (n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.
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in Christianity, a break in the unity of the church.[6 related articles]
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Formal split over a doctrinal difference between religious believers, as in the final schism between the...
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Division or separation; specifically, permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause. 'Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity.' (Eikon Basilike) Gr...
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A schism is a split or division in the church concerning religious belief or organizational structur
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A split or division in a group into opposing factions, caused by differences of opinion
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Schism noun [ Middle English
scisme , Old French
cisme ,
scisme , French
schisme , Latin
schisma , Greek
schi`sma , from
schi`zein to split; akin to Latin
scindere , Sanskrit
chid , and probably to English
shed , v.t. (w...
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A division or split within a religious group. Although a congregation can undergo a schism, the term usually refers to a split within a denomination (Smith and Green 1995
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[
n] - division of a group into opposing factions
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split within the church, which may or may not lead to heresy [qv]. (Catholics regarded the eastern orthodox as schismatics, but not usually as heretics, even though they rejected the authority of the pope).
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split noun division of a group into opposing factions; `another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy`
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The withdrawal of a party from an established group and its inclination to form a new order. The term may also mean 'dissension.' The former meaning, however, is the usual one. Thus, the separation of the Greek and the Roman Catholic churches (culminating in 1054) is known as the ''Great Schism.' -- V.F.
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[SAT terms] division of a group into opposing factions
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