factionismn.
/ˈfakʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfakʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfækʃəˌnɪzəm/ = factionalism n.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism
partiality1520
partaking1533
factiona1538
factiousness1572
siding1600
side-taking1626
parting1652
partying1681
party spirit1705
party1726
party feeling1796
partyism1831
partisanship1834
factionism1848
partisanism1850
factionalism1855
partisanry1889
1848 North Amer. & U.S. Gaz. (Philadelphia) 6 Sept. 2/1 The very slave of slavery—the humble tool of the peculiar institution and Southern factionism.
1860 Christian Inquirer 28 Apr. 1/3 The rents and schisms which factionism will ever and anon produce in any strictly organised body.
1909 Science 28 May 860/2 Of all the evils which afflict American science to-day the wide-spread tendency to partizanship and factionism..is undeniably the worst.
1930 New Statesman 18 Jan. 458/2 He [sc. Lord Grey]would..be well-advised to drop all this factionism based on personal feuds.
1978 Black Belt Dec. 67/3 Growing political factionism.
2013 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 20 Jan. 30 The Bolshoi remains a place of intense rivalry and factionism.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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