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schism
\SIZ-uhm, SKIZ-\
noun
1. division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
2. the parties so formed.

Quotes
Already, the students were lining up into the two groups that would define the great schism among postwar American intellectuals.
-- Dinitia Smith, "The Book of Jason," New York, August 7, 1989

Origin
Schism can be traced to the Greek term schízein meaning "to split." It entered English in the mid-1300s.

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