scission
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scission
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Late Latin scissiōn- (stem of scissiō ) a cutting, equivalent to sciss ( us ) (past participle of scindere to cut) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Universal Pictures has just completed Earthquake, starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner, which scission will be offered complete with enormous loudspeakers installed in the theater to ensure a seat-shaking rumble for the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pylos allows the simple state of faith, the world unfallen; Sparta has in it the deep scission of the soul, which, however, is at present healed after many wanderings and struggles.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
Censure was the lot of the indignant boys who officered the society, and who asked Lemoyne to withdraw; and complete scission from the nourishing vine of Knowledge was his final fate.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
UP and down went the great Roldan scission.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when and where they would end?
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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