partynessn.
/ˈpɑːtɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdinᵻs/ 1. Party character or spirit; partisanship, devotion to the principles of a party, esp. the Communist Party; = party-mindedness n. at party n. Compounds 5.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party principles or line > following of
party-lining1936
partyness1952
1952 Mind 61 120 It is, of course, a principle of Marxism-Leninism that philosophy should be written in a ‘party spirit’, with ‘partyness’. This principle..originated with Lenin.
1956 B. D. Wolfe Six Keys to Soviet Syst. 83 These two strange words, ‘partyness’ and ‘foreignness’, bring us to the heart of the attack by Soviet politicians on Soviet and on human thought.
1976 Russ. Rev. (N.Y.) 35 69 Lenin advocated the principle of partiinost, a concept roughly translatable as ‘partyness’, the constant referral to party policy as the inspiration and guide to action.
2002 Jrnl. Canad. Stud. (Nexis) Jan. Party conventions ritualistically bemoaned..the lack of dedication (or ‘partyness’) of new recruits.
2. The state or condition of being a political party.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > condition of being
partyness1969
1959 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 53 99 The combination of multi-partyness, proportional representation, and a unitary state.]
1969 P. Worsley in G. Ionescu & E. Gellner Populism 228 Institutionalized opposition and other..manifestations of ‘party-ness’ still persisted.
1984 Brit. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 14 245 Average figures were used because the intention was to model the broad ‘partyness’ of a ward, rather than a specific election result.
2000 W. European Politics (Nexis) 1 Oct. 27 This view might now be qualified by evidence about the ever-increasing partyness of the Europarties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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