All 5 Uses of

partisan
in
The Lords of Discipline

Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.†
Chpt 1.2 *

The pull of Charleston was lunar and feminine and partisan and even affected those natives, like Commerce, who professed to loathe her extensive artifice and the carnivorous etiquette of its social structure.†
Chpt 1.2

In 1966 most of the graffiti were partisan editorials about the war in Vietnam.†
Chpt 1.10

When he lectured on the history of England, he was the most brilliant and passionate scholar I had ever heard, outrageously partisan, an immodest dispenser of inflamed rhetoric.†
Chpt 3.27

Then we heard the partisan outcry as the VMI players appeared on the opposite side of the field house.†
Chpt 3.30

Definitions:

(1) (partisan as in: partisan, not balanced)
having too much bias in favor of someone or something to judge related issues in a fair manner
(2) (partisan as in: a partisan of the political party)
someone who strongly supports someone or something
(3) (partisan as in: a partisan of the armed resistance)
a member of an armed resistance group; or related to such a group
(4) (partisan as in: killed with a partisan)
a weapon that resembles an elaborate spear and was popular from the 14th to the 17th century