partisanism

[pahr-tuh-zuh-niz-uhm, -suh-]

noun

1. partisan action or spirit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of partisanism¹

First recorded in 1885–90; partisan ¹ + -ism

Example Sentences

Bunch reflected: “I think that there are always moments in America where you have these tensions, where there are battles over what does it mean to be an American, what is America’s identity. My goal is to help people transcend partisanism, to try to bring people together around history, culture and science.”

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There are few things more predictable in mainstream American politics than blind, dogmatic partisanism.

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Only in a single instance was anything said that seemed obnoxious to a nice sense of propriety, or that marred the harmony of an almost universally expressed sentiment of patriotic approval of what was doing to preserve the life of the nation—a sentiment in which partisanism or party politics cut no figure whatever.

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There have been limitations upon the candor of all persons who have undertaken to write the story of the tragedy of the administration of Garfield, and partisanism in personalities has had too much attention.

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The universality of poetry, as contrasted with a narrow "German" clumsiness, is blandly defended, and a joyous abandon is urged as something better than the meticulous anxiety of chauvinistic partisanism.

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