Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An adherent of a party or faction; one who is passionately or very earnestly devoted to a party or interest; specifically, one whose judgment or perception is clouded by a prejudiced adherence to his party.
- noun Milit., a member of a party or detachment of troops sent on a special enterprise; also, the leader of such a party.
- Of or pertaining to a party or faction; strongly biased in favor of a party or interest.
- Milit., engaged on a special enterprise: as, a partizan corps.
- noun A longhandled cutting weapon used in England and Scotland from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century: a name including also the halberd, fauchard, roncone, etc.
- noun A man, as a soldier or a guardian of the peace, armed with a partizan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
partisan . - noun obsolete A weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries consisting of a
pike with a long double-edged blade, similar to ahalberd .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devoted to a cause or party
- noun an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity
- noun a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries
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Examples
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Strong men weep as they never wept before, hopeful men sigh, good men pray and look to God for strength, loyal men are appalled, the bitter partizan is a contrite mourner, none but heartless traitors can rejoice.
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A scarlet tunic with gold embroidery, white ruff, and my tall, heavy, pointy partizan in my hand.
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I will tell you my main supplier has a metric s#i+load of both .270 and. 270WSM (they are out of the wolf and prvi partizan as we speak).
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I will tell you my main supplier has a metric s#i+load of both .270 and. 270WSM (they are out of the wolf and prvi partizan as we speak).
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Has it ever been, or will it ever be otherwise than that political and partizan views should, more or less, control such elections?
Chris Rodda: A Little History Lesson For Rep. Walter B. Jones About Military Chaplains 2009
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Might I suggest that if we are considering seriously rearranging our economy, we might want to pull this research from obviously partizan hands and actually spend some dollars on independent review by engineers and scientists who are currently not receiving “climate funds” and would be a truly independent review ?
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But all I see now is a republican partizan, who sees the world in the simplest of ways under the most convenient terms possible.
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Might I suggest that if we are considering seriously rearranging our economy, we might want to pull this research from obviously partizan hands and actually spend some dollars on independent review by engineers and scientists who are currently not receiving “climate funds” and would be a truly independent review?
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I can understand points made by Obama/Clinton partizan, they are valid.
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Those who have seen most, and thought most on this subject, admit that such elections have been mainly partizan movements.
Chris Rodda: A Little History Lesson For Rep. Walter B. Jones About Military Chaplains 2009
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