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He said that 19th-century composers like Brahms were keen to exploit the expressive possibility of polyrhythms because they felt these represented something of the “intrinsic dividedness of the soul itself.”

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

From this dividedness comes Scarlett, an unresolved amalgam of the high-spirited party girl, thumbing her nose at proprieties, and the lost girl, longing for the love of a disapproving mother.

From Time • Dec. 15, 2014

Maybe because of our dividedness, we don't have that many heroes who cut across all groups.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

Now multitude involves dividedness; but it also involves and presupposes the intrinsic undividedness or unity of each constituent of the manifold.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

But they that are perfectly sound in the faith ask for all things in reliance upon the Lord, and receive them, because they ask without hesitation and with no dividedness of heart.

From Memoranda Sacra by Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel)