partizan
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Anastasius had favored the Greens, but Justinian was a partizan of the Blues.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Mrs. Marple, of course, is her daughter’s partizan, though in some ways it suits us to stand together.
From The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss
In March she came up to Paris and placed her services as journalist and partizan generally at the disposal of Ledru-Rollin, Minister of the Interior under the new Government.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas
In the beginning of June, 1781, the British garrison at Augusta, Georgia, capitulated to the American forces, under command of General Pickens and Colonel Lee, of the partizan legion.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
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 R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas