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schism
noun as in separation
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Aberdeen, perched on the North Sea, offers a perfect example of the schism between the top and bottom earners.
The schism in Wisconsin was the first crack in the Republican Party's hegemony.
Instead, journalists reached back to an earlier Republican schism from the days of Ulysses S. Grant.
Those are all products of political systems gone badly awry—through schism, invasion, or breakdown.
For the House of Israel, such authenticity has posed the threat of a schism, between Israel and Diaspora.
More than this, Jacobitism brought the National Church into peril of downright schism.
Even Bishop Ken said of him that he showed zeal to make the schism incurable.
This latter party had been rent asunder by the nonjuring schism.
The schism was not confined to the narrow limits of the Byzantine empire.
So ended the schism; and Bernard left Rome within five days after finishing his work.
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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to schism, such as: alienation, breakup, disagreement, discord, dissension, and fissure.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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