单词 | party spirit |
释义 | party spiritn. 1. A feeling of support and solidarity for the group, faction, or political party of which a person is a member or adherent. ΘΚΠ 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 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party partyship1650 party spirit1705 partyism1831 colour1852 1705 D. Defoe Double Welcome 20 Words are their missive Weapons, Noise the War; With High-Church Zeal and Party Spirits fir'd, With Hell's immortal Hate of Peace inspir'd. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 125. ¶3 A furious Party Spirit..exerts it self in Civil War and Blood-shed. 1762 G. Cockings War p. i If it is a hint dictated by a party spirit, he may save himself the trouble... Neither do I meddle with the interest of the two opposing parties, in Great Britain and Ireland. 1793 J. Farington Diary 21 July (1923) I. i. 3 Party spirit rages among them, some being Royalists, others..Constitutionalists. 1835 S. J. B. Hale Polit. Parties in Traits of Amer. Life 124 Party spirit, when indulged to enthusiasm, withers every kindly emotion of the heart towards those it counts as political enemies. 1856 R. Whately in F. Bacon Ess. 366 I am speaking of the tendency of party-spirit, and describing a party-man so far forth as he is such. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxii. 341 Discussion became heated, and party spirit ran high. Church members were gazing with emotion upon a hill which they said was the one St. Paul preached from. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 87 Any lie, however often refuted, is good enough for party-spirit. 1938 Internat. Affairs 17 6 The love of power originating in avarice and ambition and the party-spirit engendered by them when men are fairly embarked on a contest. 1983 Hist. & Theory 22 314 The hallowed Leninist notion of partiinost' (partisanship or party-spirit) in intellectual life. 2002 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 23 Dec. It was left to the state finance minister..to ‘dent the party spirit’ with an honest appraisal [of the new transport policy]. 2. An atmosphere of celebration; a festive mood. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > festivity feast?c1225 feastinga1325 jubilee1526 festivity1583 gala1716 festiveness1777 party spirit1816 trouble1884 1816 C. Lamb Glenarvon I. xviii. 150 The society at Monteith was large. There pleasure and gaiety and talent were chiefly prised and sought after, while a strong party spirit prevailed. a1839 T. H. Bayly Songs & Ballads (1844) I. 145 They've no party spirit about them, (My parties are stupid concerns,) The ladies sit sulky without them, Or dance with each other by turns. 1941 N. Marsh Death & Dancing Footman viii. 168 He's gone into a huddle over the fire and does not exactly manifest the party spirit. 1971 S. Jepson Let. to Dead Girl xix. 218 I'm not ungregarious but I'm quite incapable of the party spirit in a roomful of people busy smoking themselves into lung cancer. 2000 Elle Sept. 389 Barfly got into the party spirit with a brief mwah-mwah with the expectant Thandie Newton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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