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Scission   Listen
noun
Scission  n.  The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.






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"Scission" Quotes from Famous Books



... least, with him. He feared the laws of nature, lest, in their callous and immutable procedure, they should preserve some damning evidence of his crime. He feared tenfold more, with a slavish, superstitious terror, some scission in the continuity of man's experience, some wilful illegality of nature. He played a game of skill, depending on the rules, calculating consequence from cause; and what if nature, as the defeated tyrant overthrew the chessboard, ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson



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