factiousness
Example Sentences
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It really seemed as if the deadly factiousness of the capital had not reached Therapia.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
Then, when their essential factiousness and self-seeking had become manifest to the world, he struck his blow.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
But with your own idea that under a single general there will be less factiousness than when there were many, be assured that in choosing some other than me you will not find me factious.
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Their speeches this year might all have been answered by their speeches last year on the same subject, and nothing can be so glaring as their inconsistency and the factiousness of their motives.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
The factiousness of one Opposition naturally produces the same in the next.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount
