partizan

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If one is to speak at all of its present aspects, on this high-day of your University year, he should do so only as a patriot, not as a partizan.

From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Reid, Whitelaw

In March she came up to Paris and placed her services as journalist and partizan generally at the disposal of Ledru-Rollin, Minister of the Interior under the new Government.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. by Macbain, Alexander

The latter was a Prussian partizan who, having distinguished himself after Jena, was now striving to use the Austrian war in order to arouse the North Germans.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

Yet, for all that, the author of “Wisdom and Destiny” should not be regarded as the partizan and apologist of sadness for the sake of wisdom.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto