Synonym: split. Similar words: mischief, mischievous, school, scheme, scholar, schedule, in school, at school. Meaning: ['skɪzm ,'sɪzm] 
n. 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.
n. 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. 
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1 Gradually I adjusted to the inner schism.
2 Much of the blame for the schism is generally attributed to Nikon, the overbearing prelate elevated to the Patriarchate in 1652.
3 There is a very real schism in the motorcycling community between people who ride Harleys and those who don't.
4 However, an anticipated schism in party ranks failed to materialize.
5 Worse,(www.Sentencedict.com) because once again the great racial schism in this country has been laid bare.
6 Only this, he believed, could overcome the schism between religion and culture in the West.
7 There was now schism in Cologne as well as Mainz.
8 The issues on which the schism turned have often seemed to Western scholars so insignificant as to be almost laughable.
9 The Schism, we may say, tragically helped to polarise increasingly strong nationalist attitudes towards the war.
10 The Labour Party, riven by schism and self-doubt, seemed in long-term, inexorable decline[sentencedict.com], for sociological as well as ideological reasons.
11 It seems that there is a schism in the ruling party over the plan.
12 It is a schism which may have contributed to the stalled development of GaAs as an alternative in digital technology.
13 The letter provided further evidence of the widening schism between the church and Downing Street.
14 In 1378 a schism, occasioned by a double election to the papacy, split the western Church.
15 In 1827, a fierce schism had shaken the Quaker community.
16 The Great Schism splits the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
17 A separation into subgroups or factions; a schism.
18 That crisis is the story of the Great Schism .
19 With the Anglican Communion on the verge of schism, can Rowan Williams learn anything from John Major?
20 We are much too apt to look at schism in our church as an unmitigated evil.
21 But the schism of the company, close to be not put in this problem.
22 In the late fifties, the Sino-Soviet Schism took place, and Communists were obliged to choose between Moscow and Peking.
23 The church seems to be on the brink of schism.
24 None the less, Henry did not rush headlong down the road to schism.
25 Wherever pentecostalism goes it evokes both joy and anger, gratitude and rejection, polemic 77 and schism.
26 This second founding congress, however, was marred by an immediate schism.
27 American, European and Arab diplomacy should now join forces to mend the Palestinian schism.
28 The 650-odd bishops who attended the once-a-decade Lambeth conference went home with open schism between the liberal and conservative wings of the worldwide Anglican Communion averted.
29 John Paul II stated that an end to the Great Schism was one of his fondest wishes.
30 This was the first time a pope had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
More similar words: mischief, mischievous, school, scheme, scholar, schedule, in school, at school, on schedule, auschwitz, preschool, schoolbag, schematic, high school, gas chamber, after school, discharging, scholarship, schadenfreude, chin, chip, chic, behind schedule, child, chisel, chill, chick, china, chide, ahead of schedule.