“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
(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.
“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.”
“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.”