factiousness

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The three together touched upon the three most burning questions of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- parliamentary factiousness, an aggressive policy abroad, and toleration at home.

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  1. The state or quality of being factious; disposition to promote or take part in faction. A gentleman, indeed, most rarely accomplished, excellently learned but without all vainglory, friendly without factiousness. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. With all their factiousness, they [the Clericals] could not very well dare to pursue their habitual tactics of opposition in a matter which, after all, was of much more concern to their constituents than spiritual and religious interests. Lowe, Bismarck, II. 467.

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  • But the more unseemly and malicious factiousness may show itself against new works, the more am I laid under a grateful obligation to those who do not accept as their artistic criterion the injustice inflicted on me. —  Letters
  • Men who remembered the story of the violence and insatiable factiousness of Florence, turned again to Macchiavelli and to Guicciardini, to trace a parallel between the fierce city on the Arno and the fierce city on the Thames. —  Burke
  • [161] It is no innate factiousness, as flighty critics of French affairs sometimes imply, that has made civil equality the passion of modern France. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)
  • The three together touched upon the three most burning questions of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- parliamentary factiousness, an aggressive policy abroad, and toleration at home. —  Political Pamphlets
  • It is no innate factiousness, as flighty critics of French affairs sometimes imply, that has made civil equality the passion of modern —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)
 

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