partyism

American  

[pahr-tee-iz-uhm] / ˈpɑr tiˌɪz əm /

noun

1. adherence to a political party or organization.

2. the organization of political affairs into parties; the political system of a state, region, etc. (often used in combination).

   Two-partyism was never significant in continental politics.

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Other Word Forms

• partyist
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of partyism

First recorded in 1835–45; party + -ism

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Example Sentences

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partyism

To a debate full of inelegant coinages — “popularism,” “viralism” — let me, with apologies, add one more: partyism.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021

This year in Kansas, voters have a chance to express their own feelings about partyism thanks to Greg Orman, a private-equity executive who is running for the Senate as an independent.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2014

In Brooks’s column, he hastened to explain that he wasn’t opposed to political judgment, per se—as he sees it, part of the problem with partyism is that it obscures finer, more nuanced political appraisals.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2014

Greater than ever the demand for courage in conciliation—for divesting the issues of all mere partyism, and the yielding of something by the extremes, both of conservatism and radicalism.

From History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 by Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross

Believing that there is but one interest in the West, and but little occasion for partyism beyond the investigation of principles and the conduct of functionaries, we would rather encourage union than excite division.

From The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 by Jacob Piatt Dunn

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