partyistn.adj.
/ˈpɑːtɪɪst/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdiᵻst/ A. n.
A partisan; a supporter of a particular (esp. political) party.
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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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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party > one attached to party
partyman1701
party woman1725
partyist1854
1854 De Bow's Rev. Oct. 378 The conductor of a Press..who can measure the perilous mazes of that untrodden path, where the mere partyist never dares to enter!
1889 Voice (N.Y.) 10 Jan. The temperance men in the Republican party outnumber the ‘third partyists seven to one’.
1949 S. Lens Left, Right & Center xxi. 424 The hundreds and thousands of labor partyists and idealists are in the same fix.
1996 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 27 May a7 Devout ‘partyists’ only see voters as supporting the party and its policies—not the candidate.
2000 New Vision (Kampala) June 8/6 Silvester Ocago, a partyist, and John Opado, a Movement man, fought at Angopet slum.
B. adj.
Of or relating to a political partyist. Also, of a political system: consisting of parties that compete for election to government.
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1991 E. A. Winckler in H. F. Feldman China in Mod. World 15 Taiwan has not been a Leninist political system,..mostly because Taiwan's political system has been only partly partyist.
1995 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Oct. 13 They stood for pluralist not partyist politics, co-operative not adversarial.
2002 Africa News (Nexis) 7 June At the centre of the current partyist heckling is the Political Organisation Bill (POB) passed recently by Parliament.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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