fissiparous

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But this national identity will likely be fragile and fissiparous, and in any conflict the three groups will identify themselves in opposition to each other.

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  1. adjective Reproducing by biological fission.
  2. adjective Tending to break up into parts or break away from a main body; factious.

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  • Bipartisanship is out: Political parties have fissiparous tendencies for a reason. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • These forces have come about, have been created, by the practice of abusing a particularly fissiparous 'apolitical' strand of Islam through its deployment as western proxy - in a parody of a Cold War containment policy - charged with containing the forces of the Islamist revolution. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • This attitude of DG ISI also set a chain reaction of fissiparous tendencies, which led to a political divide in the ISI as well. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • Egged on by his virago of a wife Theodora, Justinian conceived the megalomaniacal plan forcibly to reunify the fissiparous ex - —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • A new communion of Anglican Churches may emerge from the present situation (indeed, it seems likely at this point), a communion centered in those vibrant Churches of the Global South, but without the centripetal force of communion with the ancient See of Canterbury I fear that the fissiparous nature of Anglican protestantism will assert itself, and we will see fractures between Churches and groups in that new communion on theological party lines. —  The Confessing Reader
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  1. from New Latin fissiparus, from Latin fissus, past participle of findere, cleave, separate, + -parus, from parere, produce: see parent.
 

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