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Word: partisan

Definition: one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party (with dislike of any others); N: strong supporter of a party; guerrilla


Sentences Containing 'partisan'

I became his zealous partisan, and contributed all I could to raise a party in his favour, and we combated for him a while with some hopes of success.
Geoffroy there is no doubt that Goethe was an extreme partisan of similar views, as shown in the introduction to a work written in 1794 and 1795, but not published till long afterward; he has pointedly remarked ("Goethe als Naturforscher", von Dr. Karl Meding, s.

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