Definition of "schisms" [schisms]

• Plural form of schism. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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"