Definitions for schisms

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schisms schism

Spelling: [siz-uh m, skiz-]

IPA: /ˈsɪz əm, ˈskɪz-/

Schisms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in schisms (chimsss).

Definitions for schisms

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 schisms

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 schisms

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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