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noun

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Recent Examples of schismatic
Adjective
The potential members of a schismatic Catholic sect are located in areas of the world such as the United States, where the church has significant financial resources and assets, plus a wide array of independent Catholic institutions that operate largely outside the hierarchy of the church. Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018 But Barzani’s setback only birthed a schismatic new cadre of Kurdish leaders. Behnam Ben Taleblu, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2017 The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn't recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy's top authority. Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023 The necessarily schismatic nature of the civil-rights movement, encompassing godless socialists as well as evangelical Christians, was exactly the right place for someone with a Friends background to flourish. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 Novatian: one of an early Christian schismatic sect existing from A.D. 251 to the 6th or 7th century that denied that the church should restore lapsed Christians to membership and advocated a rigidly purist conception of church membership. Dallas News, 1 June 2022 The fracture widens and hardens—fanatic, schismatic, idiotic. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022 The calls-and-responses between strings and winds in the middle of the first movement dramatically seesawed tempos, whetting Tchaikovsky’s schismatic emotional contrasts to sharp points. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022 This decree reversed the policy of Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, who in 2007 loosened restrictions on the Latin Mass in order to improve relations with schismatic traditionalist groups, according to the National Catholic Reporter. Grayson Quay, The Week, 19 Dec. 2021
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In 1935, Pope Pius XI openly supported the invasion of Ethiopia as a crusade against a country of heretics, schismatics, pagans, and infidels. Ian Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022 This situation has arisen because the head of state, President Poroshenko, turned to the patriarch in Constantinople to give autocephaly to the schismatics. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2019 How much backing the schismatics might have among AK voters is unclear. The Economist, 6 June 2019 In 1997 the patriarch of the Russian church excommunicated him and declared his followers schismatics. Michael Khodarkovsky, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schismatic
Adjective
  • Despite many challenges like reducing oil dependency, ensuring political stability amid sectarian divides and managing environmental crises, the Sudani government must focus on protecting the state.
    James Durso, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Armed Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims have engaged in tribal and sectarian rivalry for decades over a land dispute in Kurram district near the Afghanistan border.
    Reuters, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The White House rolled out the red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023, even after U.S. intelligence had implicated Indian government agents in a conspiracy to kill a Sikh separatist activist on U.S. soil.
    Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Some Black critics, including W. E. B. Du Bois, denounced his Black separatist views and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, who shared Garvey's goal of racial separatism.
    Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, includes 1,400 shots, 1,347 of which are VFX.
    Simon Thompson, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But, in fairness, the George Miller action film, which follows the origin story of the fearless renegade (originally played by a shorn Charlize Theron, and this time by the great Anya Taylor-Joy), had huge shoes to fill.
    Photo: Courtesy of MGM., refinery29.com, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Schismatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schismatic. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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