Synonyms:
schism, split
Meaning: division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"
Usage examples
And is it not probable that, by thus attempting to heal one schism, we may cause another?
But the general tendency of schism is to widen. Had Leo the Tenth, when the exactions and impostures of the Pardoners first roused the indignation of Saxony, corrected those evil practices with a vigorous hand, it is not improbable that Luther would have died in the bosom of the Church of Rome.