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Noun(1) division of a group into opposing factions(2) the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences(3) separation

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(1) But the vote will drive many from the church and risks schism .(2) The church would even suffer its first schism and be reduced from seventy-eight to sixty-six members.(3) He entered federal parliament in 1928 and was defeated at the end of 1931 as the Australian Labor Party succumbed in NSW to a schism between the federal party and the supporters of J. T. Lang.(4) A further schism developed among those favoring the colony's existence.(5) And while successive popes soon fell into the era of the papal schism , and then into the Reformation and the fracturing of the western Church, the claims of Benedict were long maintained in somewhat more subtle and nuanced forms.(6) The move threatens to create a schism in the Church, pitting modernisers against traditionalists.(7) The group makes psychedelic music born of cabin fever rather than hallucinogenics, and in their solitude, they have crafted an album that fits snugly within the temporal schism dividing many of us.(8) It is only in recent years that the dialogue between the two Churches to heal the schism has been effectively re-opened.(9) At the parish level, the fear of schism ensured that the church remained a militant one, committed to the policies of Catholic reform first promulgated by the council of Trent.(10) Surely this must produce a deep schism in a sense between science and Buddhism from the very beginning?(11) the widening schism between Church leaders and politicians(12) Europe was suffering under the Black Death, and the papal schism had brought political and theological upheaval.(13) A dangerous schism in the Russian party developed with the emergence of the view known as Economism.(14) His work deals with death, violence, the schism between society's ideals and behaviour - very metaphorical work.(15) Since that time, with the exception of brief intervals, the Bulgarian Church has persisted in schism .(16) Obliged to adopt the remuneration norms from the West, the Churches abandoned in part their tradition of equality, and a new schism entered into ecclesiastical society between the rich and the less well off.