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Definition

someone or an adjective describing someone who strongly supports a person, group, or idea

Often used to indicate the partisan will not give a fair hearing to an opposing person, group, or idea. Occasionally refers to a member of an armed resistance group.

I was hoping for a balanced report, but heard only partisan praise.

partisan = coming from someone who strongly supports a person, group, or idea

...judges who become too caught up in the essentially political role of making new policies are apt to lose their neutrality and become partisans...
Richard Posner -- Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
It may be a cliché, and it may be a partisan attack term, but it is also true: There is a culture of corruption across Capitol Hill.
Michael S. Greve -- How to Think about Constitutional Change, Part II -- http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.22622/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
He claims to be a partisan of neither party, but only of truth.
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Partisan politics was legitimized during the Jacksonian Era of American history.
Yitzchak, who had indeed escaped, had lived in the forest with the partisans, fighting the Germans.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic

partisans = members of an armed resistance group

That was before the first "partizan" groups had been formed;
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

partizan = strongly supporting an idea

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato
I never heard you make such a bitter partisan speech before, Captain Jim.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne's House of Dreams
The so-called partisan war began with the entry of the French into Smolensk.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Thinkers like Herbert Croly and John Dewey articulated their ideas in behalf of a great partisan movement to defeat a prevailing view—what they called "individualism"—and to institute a new one.
James W. Ceaser -- Toward a New Public Philosophy -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.10141,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
The armed fighting in the Warsaw ghetto and thousands of brave deeds performed by Jewish partisans show that it was a very capable resistance too.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
In this matter, I act as a partisan of the lady concerned.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
In Natal, Zulu was murdering Zulu, for Inkatha members and ANC partisans are Zulus.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
This sentiment brewed up from a mixture of racism, conservatism, and partisan politics.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
Nothing wrong when sane women with the vote might rid politics of partisanship, greed, crookedness?
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
The so-called partisan war began with the entry of the French into Smolensk.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Two noble gentlemen, who had a weakness for strong drink, had been made drunk by the partisans of Snetkov, and a third had been robbed of his uniform.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
My hour of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound!
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

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