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partisan
  1. An adherent to a party or faction.
  2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
  3. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter
  4. (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. follower, adherent, disciple, votary, supporter, acolyte, pupil, epigone, convert, devotee, votarist, backer, champion, upholder, cohort, sectary, fan, enthusiast, stalwart, booster, liegeman, rooter, promoter, member, janissary, accessory, sponsor, sycophant, sympathiser, sympathizer, satellite, advocate, defender, partizan, believer, apostle, protagonist, proponent, friend, patron, fanatic, worshipper, proselyte, expounder, exponent, espouser, advocator, herald, hierophant, gospeler … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Well, it just means that I don't consider myself a political partisan in the sense that we back one party or another.”
      “While I have expressed my views as a partisan of the Revolution, I have at the same time tried to present an account of the revolutionary process that I believe to be true.”
      “The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.”
partisan
  1. (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting. Obsolescent after the 17th century until revived by Sir Walter Scott.
  2. (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. follower, adherent, disciple, votary, supporter, acolyte, pupil, epigone, convert, devotee, votarist, backer, champion, upholder, cohort, sectary, fan, enthusiast, stalwart, booster, liegeman, rooter, promoter, member, janissary, accessory, sponsor, sycophant, sympathiser, sympathizer, satellite, advocate, defender, partizan, believer, apostle, protagonist, proponent, friend, patron, fanatic, worshipper, proselyte, expounder, exponent, espouser, advocator, herald, hierophant, gospeler … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Well, it just means that I don't consider myself a political partisan in the sense that we back one party or another.”
      “While I have expressed my views as a partisan of the Revolution, I have at the same time tried to present an account of the revolutionary process that I believe to be true.”
      “The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.”
partizan
  1. Alternative spelling of partisan
  2. (obsolete) A weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries consisting of a pike with a long double-edged blade, similar to a halberd.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. disciple, follower, adherent, partisan, votary, supporter, acolyte, convert, pupil, devotee, epigone, votarist, believer, advocate, apostle, upholder, proselyte, cohort, zealot, sectary, student, catechumen, liegeman, attendant, scholar, bhakta, apologist, learner, sectator, chela, proponent, servant, backer, worshipper, defender, worshiper, champion, protagonist, booster, rooter, member, fanatic, janissary, patron, liege, aficionado, neophyte, admirer, attender, pursuivant … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It is not safe to be a partizan, but it is safe to be free, courageous, and honest in all things.”
      “This is but the first part of the journals of this noted American partizan.”
      “But the Daityas were angry with him, affirming that he had become a partizan of the gods.”
partisanship
  1. An inclination to be partisan or biased; partiality.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bias, partiality, prejudice, tendentiousness, nonobjectivity, favor, predisposition, preference, favour, favouritism, ply, predilection, disposition, favoritism, propensity, tendency, inclination, bent, leaning, penchant, tilt, proneness, prepossession, proclivity, spin, standpoint, turn, discrimination, one-sidedness, head-set, mind-set, parti pris, intolerance, unfairness, chauvinism, illiberality, preconception, bigotry, inequity, unfair preference, narrowmindedness, inequality, jaundiced eye, affinity, injustice, unjustness, nepotism, narrow-mindedness, double standard, preferential treatment … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Fox had privately asserted that, in declaring his partisanship towards the new regime in France, he was faithfully representing the bulk of the Whig opposition.”
      “He protests against the intolerable partisanship of the tale and declares that its historical sense is false, narrow, outrageously unpatriotic.”
      “A second contributing factor to the staunch partisanship was the size of the majority.”
partisanism
  1. practices of partisans; partisanship
  2. Examples:
      3. “It's a moral issue that transcends partisanism and simply divides responsible and irresponsible.”
      “Again he was surrendering his own convictions to the partisanism of his colleagues.”
      “The partisanism of one of these motives is rather suggestive for our study of the mind of the crowd.”
partizanship
  1. Alternative spelling of partisanship
  2. Examples:
      3. “Would that this partizanship of literary workers for the senseful nature of dreams were only more unequivocal!”
partisanships
  1. plural of partisanship
  2. Synonyms:
      3. biasses, partialities, prejudices, tendentiousnesses, nonobjectivities, favors, predispositions, preferences, favours, favouritisms, plies, predilections, dispositions, favoritisms, propensities, tendencies, inclinations, bents, leanings, penchants, tilts, pronenesses, prepossessions, proclivities, spins, standpoints, turns, discriminations, one-sidedness, partis pris, preconceptions, intolerances, chauvinisms, bigotries, unfairnesses, illiberalities, affinities, narrowmindednesses, nepotisms, jobs for the boys, likings, prejudgements, prejudgments, viewpoints, subjectivities, dogmatisms … more
partizanships
  1. plural of partizanship
partizans
  1. plural of partizan
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disciples, followers, adherents, partisans, votaries, supporters, acolytes, converts, pupils, devotees, epigones, votarists, believers, advocates, apostles, upholders, proselytes, cohorts, zealots, sectaries, students, catechumens, liegemen, attendants, scholars, bhaktas, apologists, learners, sectators, chelae, proponents, servants, defenders, worshippers, worshipers, backers, rooters, protagonists, members, boosters, champions, janissaries, fanatics, lieges, patrons, aficionados, convertees, novitiates, novices, neophytes … more
partisans
  1. plural of partisan
  2. Synonyms:
      3. friends, patrons, backers, supporters, benefactors, adherents, benefactresses, advocates, advocators, apostles, boosters, espousers, exponents, expounders, gospelers, gospellers, heralds, hierophants, high priests, paladins, promoters, proponents, protagonists, sponsors, true believers, white knights, well-wishers, defenders, champions, angels, collaborators, helpers, benefactrices, Maecenases, sympathisers, upholders, sympathizers, protectors, apologists, seconders, propagandists, followers, guardians, fans, proposers, enthusiasts, battlers, seconds, subscribers, allies … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Russian partisans sabotaged railways, destroyed trucks and killed hundreds of Germans in ambush.”
      “There are times when even partisans have to break ranks if they want to maintain credibility, and this is one of them.”
      “After four months of intense training, Pak, Malcom and 118 partisans boarded four junks and set sail for the mainland.”
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