0 the point at which two people or organizations separate: --
The parting of the ways came after a series of disagreements between the singer and his song-writer.
1 different ideas or a disagreement about something that make two people or groups decide they cannot work together any longer: --
Nevertheless, once you draw a dividing line, in whatever walk of life, there is the danger not of friendships breaking but of a parting of the ways.
My second point is that this is truly an historic moment; it is a parting of the ways for the country.
This is genuinely a parting of the ways.
Such a parting of the ways could not possibly be for her benefit.
Now we have come to a parting of the ways.
The other general problem is whether we are committed now to a parting of the ways, to opting inevitably for one side or the other.
It may come really to a parting of the ways for civilisation itself.
It discloses, too, that we have now come to a parting of the ways on the bi-partisan foreign policy pursued by this country since 1945.
