- a variation of partisan.
partizan
Example Sentences
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Richard Edgcumbe had a narrower escape however from the vengeance of Richard III., after the suppression of Buckingham's revolt, in which he was a partizan, being strongly attached to the fortunes of the Red Rose.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
The way was thus paved for the participation of Rome, as a partizan of the anti-Macedonian faction, in the struggles which had so long divided the Greek world.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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 Whitelaw Reid
But as the political excitement subsided and he could feel the pulse of the American people apart from the influence of partizan zeal, he was the better able to analyze their verdict.
From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
This man was a decided partizan of the French parliaments, and well known to be an inveterate enemy of the Jesuits.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas