partisanlyadv.
/ˌpɑːtᵻˈzanli/, /ˈpɑːtᵻz(ə)nli/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdəz(ə)nli/ In the manner of a partisan; spec. over-zealously, with bias.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [adverb]
factiously1539
factionally1842
partisanly1866
sectionally1869
1866 H. Sidgwick Let. 7 Nov. in A. Sidgwick & E. M. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1906) 153 To ensure no..votes be lost, partisanly speaking.
1882 Daily News 18 Aug. 5/5 The ‘World’, which is partisanly Irish, calls the sentence outrageous.
1917 R. S. Bourne in Seven Arts June 136 The offense of our intellectuals was not so much that they were colonial..but that it was so one-sidely and partisanly colonial.
1939 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 33 1030 This bill..was reported to the House by a select committee, and debated rather partisanly.
1976 Church Times 9 July 12/4 I wish I could understand why so many Christians feel so strongly—or so partisanly—about events in South Africa.
2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 July (Features section) 12 It's a tenet of representative government that the power of the state should not be used partisanly, certainly not in a fit of party pique.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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