Factionary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Factionary is an adjective meaning A member of a faction.
Meaning
A member of a faction.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
Example Sentences
Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius, always factionary on the party of your general.
He was a Cromwellian who never fought in the Civil War, a monarchist who denounced the corruptions of kingship, a servant of two hostile parties, and a factionary of neither, a politician who did his best for both worlds.
1832, Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 4th Series, Volume 2, Chapter 10, p. 257, […] the traitor Ursel, some of them suppose, is dead, but if it were so, his name is sufficient to draw together his old factionaries […]
Word Forms
- factionaries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include partisan, sectarian, hyperpartisan, sectish, partial, antifeudal.
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