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Definition
someone or an adjective describing someone who strongly supports a person, group, or idea
- And it happened that Mr. Bulstrode and Mr. Featherstone, two of Peacock's most important patients, had, from different causes, given an especially good reception to his successor, who had raised some partisanship as well as discussion.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (79% in)
- But Lydgate had not been long in the town before there were particulars enough reported of him to breed much more specific expectations and to intensify differences into partisanship; some of the particulars being of that impressive order of which the significance is entirely hidden, like a statistical amount without a standard of comparison, but with a note of exclamation at the end.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (12% in)
There are no more uses of "partisan" in Middlemarch.
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