factionistn.adj.

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 67 A Libeller by custom, a Factionist in Societie.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem ii. xxiv. 271 Wee live with Puritans and opposite factionists.

1718 J. Strype Life J. Whitgift i. xiii. 76 He [sc. Dr. Still]..kept a strict Hand over the growing Factionists.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) ix. 317 I stared and listened with a stranger's ears To Hawkers and Haranguers, hubbub wild! And hissing Factionists with ardent-eyes.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. i. 5 Leaders..may degenerate into factionists.

1871 Times 18 Mar. 10/4 They form only a handfull, and the history of the siege teaches us that these factionists are not the thunderbolts of war.

1921 Muskogee (Okla.) Times-Democrat 17 Jan. 1/1 (headline) A resume of strategy and tactics of reformers and anti-blue factionists.

2009 B. Chadwick Lincoln for President (2010) xvii. 267 [Stephen] Douglas' position as a factionist hurt him throughout the South.

1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers II. iii. iii. 147 With eyes rivetted on them, they gave back as they would were the adverse factionist culprits passing onwards to trial or to execution.

1891 Daily News 31 Oct. 6/5 The Parnellites were simultaneously holding a meeting, which was addressed by the factionist leaders.

1936 Times 6 Apr. 12/3 This decision has caused great relief in wide sections of opinion which feared that factionist rivalries might make Easter Sunday a day of mourning.

2009 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 19 Sept. 8/1 He retained the patriarchal benevolence and ruthlessness of the factionist politics of the Rayalaseema region.