partisan
noun
an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
partizan
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a variation of
partisan.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Marple, of course, is her daughter’s partizan, though in some ways it suits us to stand together.
From The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss
The way was thus paved for the participation of Rome, as a partizan of the anti-Macedonian faction, in the struggles which had so long divided the Greek world.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Richard Edgcumbe had a narrower escape however from the vengeance of Richard III., after the suppression of Buckingham's revolt, in which he was a partizan, being strongly attached to the fortunes of the Red Rose.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
Afterwards, under some adverse circumstances attending the naval administration, he transferred himself to the land service; and served with high reputation first as a partizan officer in the guerrilla warfare, afterwards in the regular cavalry.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by Thomas De Quincey
The former of these seems to have been written by a partizan of Malachy, since it ignores Murtough.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
