partizan
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Crowds of eager citizens flocked to see the celebrated partizan warrior who had so long held the Spanish forces at bay.
Richard Edgcumbe had a narrower escape however from the vengeance of Richard III., after the suppression of Buckingham's revolt, in which he was a partizan, being strongly attached to the fortunes of the Red Rose.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
The Tugendbund, that "band of virtue" already mentioned, had ramified to the farthest borders; partizan warfare was abandoned; piety, dignity, purity, courage, and the power of organization were filling the land.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Ensenada was a strong partizan of a French alliance and of a policy hostile to England.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
The former of these seems to have been written by a partizan of Malachy, since it ignores Murtough.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor