factiousness
Example Sentences
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The Assembly continued, notwithstanding the war exigencies of the times, in their factiousness, as their persistence in some measures was considered.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
But the very system which is most calculated to foster factiousness is the one which has reigned for centuries in Dublin Castle.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
It may be remembered that all the governors of the period agreed in reprobating the factiousness and pettiness of Canadian party politics.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)
The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
Their speeches this year might all have been answered by their speeches last year on the same subject, and nothing can be so glaring as their inconsistency and the factiousness of their motives.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
