Definition of "great divide" [great divide]

• A large or major watershed of a landmass. (noun)
• A major point of division, especially death. (noun)

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• "The idea of evil and the problems which it has pre - sented to thinkers throughout history have expressed incisively the great divide in men's outlooks on nature and on human experience: the fundamental philo - sophical distinction between a natural-scientific and a spiritual-religious attitude."