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Definition(s):

  • (n) the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon

Usage(s):

  1. So spoke the highest-ranking prelates of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, the branches of Christianity sundered in the great schism of 1054.
  2. But when the great schism came, and Earl Browder fell, Abraham Heller resigned from the Party, cut off his financial support.
  3. The first, of course, was the Rome of Augustus: the second was Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire after the great schism split the Roman world.
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