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
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 M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
During the Civil War the denomination escaped an actual scission by following the neutral views of Campbell, who opposed slavery, war and abolition.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
He feared tenfold more, with a slavish, superstitious terror, some scission in the continuity of man's experience, some willful illegality of nature.
From Short Stories Old and New by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
Undeveloped she is, like nature, yet beautiful; sunken still in the life of the senses, she dwells in her little paradise without any inner scission.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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