partialistn.
/ˈpɑːʃl̩ɪst/, /ˈpɑːʃəlɪst/, U.S. /ˈpɑrʃələst/ 1. A partial, prejudiced, or biased person; a person who favours one party or side unduly; a partisan, enthusiast.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan
factionary1555
partisan1555
parter1567
factioner1579
partialist1597
factionist1609
sider1616
partian1624
partiary1624
sidesman1647
factioneerc1710
sectionary1835
partyist1854
factionalist1882
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factional1904
1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xxv. 205/2 Partialist.]
1597 S. Daniel Trag. Philotas (1605) iv. ii. sig. E7 To satisfie The most stiffe partialist that will not see.
1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica iii. 89 Which dissent..cannot..falsify their consent and harmony..as partialists infer.
1788 F. Burney Diary 11 Jan. (1842) IV. 23 I have not been willing to deny myself the pleasure of letting my equally blind partialists hear.
1875 Harper's Mag. Jan. 137/2 The writer is a partialist, and an avowed partialist.
1892 Chicago Advance 22 Dec. How all these things came to be..is not a matter to be settled by partialists.
1954 Jrnl. Politics 16 80 Officially, U.W.F. always declared for universalism, but a large partialist minority kept the question in the doctrinal foreground.
2002 Entertainm. Weekly (Nexis) 15 Mar. 26 That puzzlement may be shared by millions of urban rock and hip-hop partialists.
2. A person who holds a partial theory or view, or whose knowledge or outlook is limited; a specialist.
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1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 269 Very fitly, therefore, I assert, that every man is a partialist.
1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 51 The partialists,—deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
1874 H. W. Beecher in Christian World Pulpit 6 239/1 We are all of us ignorant; we know in part; we are partialists.
1973 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 31 403/2 The hope of all music—of the future, of the past, to say nothing of the present—will not lie with the partialist who raves about an ultra-modern opera..but despises Schubert.
2003 Family Practice News (Nexis) 1 Jan. 9 For those of us who find it boring to do the same thing over and over, it helps to be a generalist (primary care physician) instead of a ‘partialist’ (specialist).
3. Theology. = particularist n. rare.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > doctrine of salvation > [noun] > particularism > adherent
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1856 N. D. George Universalism not of Bible 90 It was received as the pure bread of life, the truth, in opposition to the monstrosities of the purblind Partialists.
1921 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XII. 530/2 The opponents of this [Universalist] doctrine are designated by its adherents as partialists or limitarians.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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