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n. - The act of dividing by cutting or splitting.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Noun : a growing cleavage between the Conservative and Liberal wings of the party
  • Royalism, make solemn final 'scission' from an Assembly given up to faction; and depart, shaking the dust off their feet.
  • Now schism takes its name from scission, as stated above (Q. 39, A. 1).
  • Lt.Col. Jaguar has never created any scission (sic), any looting nor movement of his forces.
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