factiousness
- a word derived from factious.
Example Sentences
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To no class indeed could the selfishness, the corruption, the factiousness, and the administrative inefficiency of the ruling order be more utterly odious.
From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by Green, John Richard
The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
It is no innate factiousness, as flighty critics of French affairs sometimes imply, that has made civil equality the passion of modern France.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John
Then, when their essential factiousness and self-seeking had become manifest to the world, he struck his blow.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
It may be remembered that all the governors of the period agreed in reprobating the factiousness and pettiness of Canadian party politics.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)
