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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a party; one who is thoroughly or earnestly attached to the principles of his party; a partizan.
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“A little more liberal than me here, a little more conservative than me there, but basically an honest thinker and not a party-man.”
“A little more liberal than me here, a little more conservative than me there, but basically an honest thinker and not a party-man.jstarQuote”
“I shall never play whist, said Mr. Perry, without thinking of this, and shall love the game the better for the thought; though I am no party-man.”
“As speaker he continued, however, to be a party-man (he had always been a member of the left-centre or government party) and materially assisted the government by his rulings.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“I knew Burnet; he was a furious party-man, and easily imposed on by any lying spirit of his own faction; but he was a better pastor than any man who is now seated on the Bishop's bench.”
“It is not much to be wondered at, that a small politician and narrow party-man, as Lord”
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
“Let the occiputs thus cut off be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.”
“A man was needed who was not known as a party-man.”
“I hain't ever cared for office, but I'm a party-man, an 'what the party wants me to do I'll do every time.”
“He had the voice and impulsive manner of a young man; while there was a consistent moderation in his opinions which -- however it might weigh against his success as a party-man -- yet sprang from conviction, and was a guard against misanthropy.”
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