Definitions for schism

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Spelling: [siz-uh m, skiz-]

IPA: /ˈsɪz əm, ˈskɪz-/

Schism is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in schism (chimss).

Definitions for schism

noun

1. division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
2. the parties so formed.
3. Ecclesiastical. a formal division within, or separation from, a church or religious body over some doctrinal difference. the state of a sect or body formed by such division. the offense of causing or seeking to cause such a division.

Origin of schism

1350-1400; Late Latin (Vulgate) sc(h)isma (stem sc(h)ismat-) Greek, derivative of schízein to split, with -ma (stem -mat-) noun suffix of result; replacing Middle English (s)cisme, sisme Midd

Examples for schism

The work of schism has been pretty extensive in some parts of this District.

The schism in Wisconsin was the first crack in the Republican Party's hegemony.

At the fall of the western empire Acacius attempts his schism.

In that case you would choose some other ultimatum as your test of schism.

Quick work was to be made of schism, heresy, and rebellion in France.

For the House of Israel, such authenticity has posed the threat of a schism, between Israel and Diaspora.

But they did not think a schism inside the PKK would lead to such a killing.

Rome, that boasts of her freedom from schism should blot the 18th century from her page.

Instead, journalists reached back to an earlier Republican schism from the days of Ulysses S. Grant.

Aberdeen, perched on the North Sea, offers a perfect example of the schism between the top and bottom earners.