Definition of Factionalism

1. Noun. The splitting of a group into factions ¹

2. Noun. Conflict between factions ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Factionalism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Factionalism

factfinders
factfinding
factful
factice
factices
facticities
facticity
factified
factifies
factify
factifying
factiness
faction
factional
factionalise
factionalism (current term)
factionalisms
factionalization
factionalizations
factionalize
factionalized
factionalizer
factionalizers
factionalizes
factionalizing
factionally
factionary
factioner
factioners
factionist

Literary usage of Factionalism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cotton as a World Power: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1916)
"... CHAPTER 51 SECESSION AND factionalism PRECEDING chapters have traced the course by which the haphazard factions of the early American . ..."

2. The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of by Ralph Barton Perry (1918)
"factionalism That which the French have had most to fear is internal disunion due to their intensity of partisan convictions. " In every Frenchman," says ..."

3. A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Foundation of the American Presidency by Michael P. Riccards (1987)
"... factionalism, 1792 My earnest wish and my fondest hope... is that instead of wounding suspicious and irritable charges, there may be liberal allowances, ..."

4. The U. S. by Robert F. Reed (1998)
"Party factionalism Japan's parliamentary form of government features a multiparty system in which one party, the Liberal Democratic Party, ..."

5. The Reconfiguration of Political Order in Africa: A Case Study of North Kivu by Denis M. Tull (2005)
"... becomes even more tangible when the state does not fulfill its expected functions.762 6.5.2. factionalism and the Politics of the Belly: The Case of ..."

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