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partisan

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1. partisan - Noun

2. partisan - Adjective

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An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

Any member of such a corps.

Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.

Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.

A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. Reinhold Niebuhr

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone. William Harvey

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. Milan Kundera

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan. Bill Clinton

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican-that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive. Mitt Romney

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. Zell Miller

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