partizan

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Dora belonged to a whist club which met every Friday afternoon on strictly partizan lines, except for once a year, when they asked the men in.

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.

He was one of the golden-haired Greeks and the multitude, for ever partizan to the strongest man, roared and thundered its encouragement to him.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

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 Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

Yet, for all that, the author of “Wisdom and Destiny” should not be regarded as the partizan and apologist of sadness for the sake of wisdom.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

Most disquieting of all, there were movements both of intellectual agitation and of active partizan warfare in Prussia that presaged a speedy convalescence on her part.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan