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  • noun Plural form of schism.

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Examples

  • The West,. which was once all-powerful, except in so far as it weakened itself by its own inner schisms, is now a threatened entity.

    Threatened Christendom 1962

  • The movement has a revered founder (Dr. Zamenhof), martyrs, goals which some regard as of ultimate concern (world peace, Esperanto as a solution to "the language problem"), and has even suffered "schisms" with offshoots like Ido.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Meg Ireland 2010

  • The movement has a revered founder (Dr. Zamenhof), martyrs, goals which some regard as of ultimate concern (world peace, Esperanto as a solution to "the language problem"), and has even suffered "schisms" with offshoots like Ido.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Meg Ireland 2010

  • The movement has a revered founder (Dr. Zamenhof), martyrs, goals which some regard as of ultimate concern (world peace, Esperanto as a solution to "the language problem"), and has even suffered "schisms" with offshoots like Ido.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The movement has a revered founder (Dr. Zamenhof), martyrs, goals which some regard as of ultimate concern (world peace, Esperanto as a solution to "the language problem"), and has even suffered "schisms" with offshoots like Ido.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The movement has a revered founder (Dr. Zamenhof), martyrs, goals which some regard as of ultimate concern (world peace, Esperanto as a solution to "the language problem"), and has even suffered "schisms" with offshoots like Ido.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Meg Ireland 2010

  • The movement has a revered founder (Dr. Zamenhof), martyrs, goals which some regard as of ultimate concern (world peace, Esperanto as a solution to "the language problem"), and has even suffered "schisms" with offshoots like Ido.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • led to several "schisms" which separated the Roman Catholic from the Orthodox Catholic .. then the Eastern Orthodox split into several splinter groups Arianists, Armenians Catholic

    CNN.com 2011

  • Splits, schisms, upstarts—this is typical of all Protestantism, and Black Protestant churches have been no exception.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • The aforementioned religious fluidity has meant schisms, mergers, the founding of new faiths, and the arrival of faiths from other nations.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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