factionalizev.
/ˈfakʃn̩əlʌɪz/, /ˈfakʃn̩l̩ʌɪz/, /ˈfakʃənl̩ʌɪz/, /ˈfakʃ(ə)nəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfækʃ(ə)nəˌlaɪz/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. transitive. To cause (a political party, etc.) to split into factions; to make factional.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > side with [verb (transitive)] > divide into parties or make partisan
partialize1597
faction1656
split1712
partify1716
factionalize1888
1888 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 15 May 2/3 Third party candidates tend only the more to factionalize its members.
1933 Polit. Sci. Q. 48 288 The tariff and related economic problems tended to split the country into hostile sections and to factionalize the older political parties.
1970 New Yorker 14 Nov. 189/1 A party factionalized seemingly beyond repair.
2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 24 Sept. (Business section) 10/2 One of the things that music does is factionalise the audience.
2. intransitive. To split into factions, to become factional.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)] > split into factions
schismatize1601
factionate1642
split1824
factionalize1949
splinter1967
1949 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 10 Jan. 8/4 Let it factionalize into a right and left wing, and it loses its usefulness.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 27 Dec. 16/2 Though there was a tendency for students to factionalize, there were always students good about diplomacy.
2011 J. F. Siekmeier Bolivian Revol. & U.S. ii. 43 After 1956 the MNR began to factionalize.
Derivatives
ˈfactionalized adj.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [adjective] > characterized by faction
factionist1827
factionalist1897
factionalized1906
1906 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos 4 Aug. 7/2 The Kansas Republicans are badly factionalized.
1911 Moberly (Missouri) Weekly Monitor 22 Jan. A factionalized community soon becomes a dead community.
1965 F. O. Miller Minobe Tatsukichi 330 Japanese fascists were absorbed into a larger movement too eclectic in ideology, too factionalized in makeup, and too conservative in tradition to be encompassed adequately in the category, fascism.
2009 Daily Tel. 3 Mar. 23/4 Victoria's early court was a febrile, factionalised place.
ˈfactionalizing n.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > act or condition of division into factions
factionalizing1952
1952 Winnipeg Free Press 2 Jan. 8/2 Burma's freedom has been followed by a period of almost unbelievable factionalizing.
1981 Word 32 213 The term politicolinguistics..carries several connotations;..the factionalizing of language as an issue in a community or nation; [etc.].
2004 L. Hill Deacons for Def. ii. 42 Leaders had to be chosen, inspiring jealousy and factionalizing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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