schismatic

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Some will refer to you as a schismatic, a heretic, or a betrayer.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or engaging in schism.
  2. noun One who promotes or engages in schism.

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  • She had promised Charles to slay all the English in France; her cruelty and love of bloodshed were insatiable; she had influenced Charles by acts of magic; her banners and her rings were bewitched; she was schismatic, and doubted as to which was the right Pope; and, in spite of this, she had the wickedness to inform the Earl of Armagnac which of the two Popes he was to believe the genuine. —  Joan of Arc
  • [Footnote: Including what I had to pay for being called a schismatic by the Archbishop of Paris, or his officials.] —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Some will refer to you as a schismatic, a heretic, or a betrayer. —  Deacon's Blog
  • Fr Kennedy can perhaps give Tony Blair a call if he wants another member to join his schismatic, heretical, disobedient cult. —  CathNews
  • These were people who were analogous to the Amish in our own society, people that crossed themselves the other way - left to right rather than right to left - and became schismatic from the Russian Orthodox Church and were persecuted. —  Political Affairs Magazine
 

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  1. Formerly also scismatic; from Old French (and F.) schismatique = Provencal sismatic = Spanish cismatico = Portuguese schismatico = Italian scismatico, from Late Latin schismaticus, from Greek σχισ, σ1ματικός, schismatic, from σχίσ, σ1μα(τ-), a cleft, split, schism: see schism.
 

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