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GREAT SCHISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
schism (the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences)
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
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