Noun : a growing cleavage between the Conservative and Liberal wings of the party. From Dictionary.com.
Royalism, make solemn final 'scission' from an Assembly given up to faction; and depart, shaking the dust off their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Now schism takes its name from scission, as stated above (Q. 39, A. 1). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Lt.Col. Jaguar has never created any scission (sic), any looting nor movement of his forces. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: Congo: Kabila Tells IDPs to "Go Home," Howard Wolpe Takes Reins as Special Envoy] Reference
This shows that duality — or any other such numerical form — is no relation produced either by scission or association. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
They find Mr. Jefferson in that great emergency protesting against 'a scission of the Union, 'in any event; and the ordinance of South. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The Arabs hitherto in their revolt had made clean history, and I did not wish our adventure to come to the pitiable state of scission before the common victory and its peace. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
There is a true scission in Asian-American society. From Wordnik.com. [8Asians.com] Reference
The scission was not yet irremediable between the two terms. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
On the propagation by scission and innumerable subdivisions of Arianism. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
Grèce: Que se cache-t-il derrière la scission de l'aile droite de SYRIZA?. From Wordnik.com. [World Socialist Web Site] Reference
As he never encountered an iron bar whose scission baffled him, so there never was. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when & where they would end?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when and where they would end?. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
These results suggest an important role for membrane scission in setting circadian period. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Does he not show within himself a deep scission -- between his desire to return and his deed?. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
Ninety had solemnly made scission, before that: and departed, shaking the dust off their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
I am saying this to avoid a scission and endless debate that would lead to a sterile standstill. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Gods, and in the primitive innocence of its people, who seem to be without a jar or inner scission. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
ESCRT-III assembly and concomitant membrane scission on membrane nanotubes drawn from black lipid membranes. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Thus their self-alienation has deepened into absolute self-contradiction, the complete scission of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
He, therefore, has the scission in himself, he longs to leave and be restored out of this realm of mere nature. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
Furious, they spoke openly of a possible scission of the UMP in the near future, with the creation of a new political party. From Wordnik.com. [European Tribune] Reference
You cannot then take side with the people in opposition to your own vote, that very vote which will have helped to produce the scission. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Undeveloped she is, like nature, yet beautiful; sunken still in the life of the senses, she dwells in her little paradise without any inner scission. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
He will go directly home, and thus he has to leave the others behind; the scission is not in him as in them; he can be restored, in fact he restores himself. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
The failure of the movement made that scission of the Netherlands certain, which has endured till our days, for the influence of the ecclesiastics in the states of Artois and. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Every gemmule may multiply itself by a process of scission into any number of equivalent gemmules. ". From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
The scission has been too complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
Suppose a scission should take place. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
UP and down went the great Roldan scission. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
To this scission there succeeded many others. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
A memoire, threatening a scission. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
), an active component in membrane vesicle scission. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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