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
They find Mr. Jefferson in that great emergency protesting against 'a scission of the Union,' in any event; and the ordinance of South Carolina would have received his unqualified abhorrence.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
As he never encountered an iron bar whose scission baffled him, so there never was a fire-eating Methodist to whose ministrations he would not turn a repentant ear.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles
But if on a temporary superiority of the one party, the other is to resort to a scission of the Union, no federal government can ever exist.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
She had had most of her teeth drawn before I saw her, and an attempt had been made to wrench out the nerve on the left side by the external scission.
From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
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