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    schism


    1. honour to that part which lacked : That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another


    2. before the Great Schism in 1054


    3. The now is a schism between:


    4. has generated a major schism in the


    5. When the parish happened to be situated in a great city, it divided all the inhabitants into two parties; and when that city happened, either to constitute itself a little republic, or to be the head and capital of a little republic, as in the case with many of the considerable cities in Switzerland and Holland, every paltry dispute of this kind, over and above exasperating the animosity of all their other factions, threatened to leave behind it, both a new schism in the church, and a new faction in the state


    6. Schism proved Basel’s undoing and led to the resignation of its pontiff (1449), while Eugene’s own Council of Ferrara, Florence (1438–1445) stoutly reasserted Papal Supremacy” (Amer


    7. Because the Church has not had the wisdom to give the new answers of science a respectful review, because it has pushed back instead of going forward, a schism has opened, where none should have been allowed, that grows wider every day


    8. pilgrimages from the west increasingly difficult: the Byzantines, especially after the schism of 1054, did not seek to smooth the way of the pilgrim


    9. 5 You all were simple and sincere without malice one toward another: 6 All sedition and all schism were abominable to you


    10. 9 This your schism has perverted many; has cast many into despondency; many into doubt; all of us into grief and as yet your sedition remaineth

    11. Love has no schism; love makes not sedition; love does all things in harmony; in love all the elect of God have been made perfect


    12. This in turn would have led to the schism in the plunamic systems that would have caused the eventual split, though of a different kind


    13. such as the Lucid-Emacs schism reflected problems normally


    14. That there should be no schism in the body; that the members should have the same care one for another


    15. Crusade was diverted from a mission to Egypt and recapturing the Holy Land, to settling old scores in the growing Latin and Greek schism that led them to sack a number of Greek cities, and finally Constantinople itself


    16. schism that has left Shias and Sunnis at each others' throats to this


    17. The origin of the schism is unclear


    18. And that was to avoid the schism his Quranic creed was causing in Mecca


    19. a schism in the Tibetan exile society that was once seen as


    20. True that Islam had dwelt all about the jihad against the kafirs to the last detail, even of splitting the ‘spoils of war’ among the believers; but then, how even the All Knowing Allah were to know that the Musalmans one day would wage jihad against their fellow Musalmans, and that which ‘the God’ couldn’t foresee, how His Messenger would have seen! Besides, Muhammad, gloating over the sycophantic antics of his flock, any way, would have been too overwhelmed to visualize the impending schism for airing an opinion as otherwise that would have surely found its way into the Islamic folklore

    21. Buddhism, and the beginning of a schism which could exclude


    22. creating schism and disharmony within the Tibetan spiritual trad-


    23. within the Kagyu tradition, producing a deep schism between those


    24. No, this fire is spirit saturated by the illusory blue not falling; only light, its schism fracturing through shadows, intermingling the integration with an audience of brilliant kin billions of years ancient


    25. This apparently disconnecting self-interest – responsibility – is social disinterest – aresponsibility – by an autonomously indifferent self-occlusion derived from a schism between virtual world reward and real world thwartedness


    26. If Techine perceives, believes, knows it not only does not need us, but also does not need organic life, then the inventions of our mind giving rise to the GlobalMind will have recreated the dualism of our own mind/body schism within Techine's indifference for its own body, Eartheart


    27. The schism left a scar that both were not able to start anew


    28. It was in Cape Town that Jamie became aware of the enormous schism between the blacks and whites


    29. “Beware of schism, of making a rent in the Church of Christ


    30. By using the corruption and greed of the international bankers of the western capitalist system, and their secret societies: the undead invented the cultural schism between the totalitarian regime of Bolshevik Russia in the East which was a mockery of National socialism, and the western mockery of capitalist democracy in the West

    31. The schism between socialism and capitalism created by WW1 and the abdication of the Tsar of Russia: the Bolshevik revolution, the red armies of Lenin and Trotsky who ended up defeating the white armies of the Tsarist regime, this was all orchestrated by undead entities in order to pit man against man and create a world of evil hate and fear and terrorism


    32. aspect of the schism after the return from captivity


    33. To heal one's inner schism?


    34. As I immersed myself in the feelings of the man, I felt a great schism, a flaw, a something in


    35. allow such a schism to undermine their power base of authority without a protracted


    36. The events of The Full Moon Ceremony had caused in me a schism of such depth, that it


    37. It was a battle so vicious and so public that Saturday Night Live lampooned the schism between the First Lady and Regan


    38. We have no more desire than you to give ground to heresy and schism


    39. Temple Loyalist—one who renounces the schism created by the Church of Charis’ defiance of the Grand Vicar and Council of Vicars of the Church of God Awaiting


    40. Some Temple Loyalists are also Reformists (see above), but all are united in condemning the schism between Charis and the Temple

    41. And her next attack was upon the Talamasca, which she proposed 'to run out of Louisiana,' but when she came up against their endless list of London and New York law firms, and the fact that an entire contingent of the family went up in arms against her, myself and Michael included, she settled very quickly for a schism in the firm, and for telling me how 'insane' I was, and that she was going to 'put Tante Oscar in a home


    42. When Greene acted as if he didn’t know what had happened to cause such a schism, Marilyn issued another statement that sounded suspiciously not like her—but a lot like Arthur Miller: “As president of the corporation and its only source of income, I was never informed that he had elected himself to the position of executive producer of The Prince and the Showgirl


    43. {40} Could all this be forgotten? Yes, a schism / Nurtured by foppery and barbarism Made great Apollo blush for this bis land


    44. But, sir, in the unfortunate year of 1806, the memorable year of the schism, as it is called, the year of non-importation-act memory, in that year when we had a war message against Spain on the table, and a message of a different character locked up in the drawer—in that year we passed an act which has been quoted, by which we repealed the second and fourth sections of the act to provide for the Naval Peace Establishment; that is to say, we undid the reform which had been carried into execution by our predecessors—with a very ill grace, I acknowledge, and at the very last time of asking, on the 3d of March, 1801, late at night—it was a forced put, no doubt of it—we passed an act in which we repealed the second and fourth sections of that act, and added to the officers of the Navy as follows: instead of nine captains, to which number the Federal Administration had reduced them, and which number we believed for four years to be amply sufficient, we added five new captains—and yet we ought to recollect that in the interim between these two acts the frigate Philadelphia had been wholly lost, and another frigate (the General Greene) retained in the service by the act of the 3d of March, 1801, worse than totally lost, as any one may see who will go and look at her remains in the navy yard—so that the number of officers made by Congress in 1806 was in the inverse ratio to the number of ships, and, with two frigates less, we determined to have five captains more


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    Synonyms for "schism"

    schism split crack cleavage fissure severing disjunction breach

    "schism" definitions

    division of a group into opposing factions


    the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences