Definition of Partitionist

1. Noun. An advocate of partitioning a country.

Generic synonyms: Advocate, Advocator, Exponent, Proponent
Derivative terms: Partition, Partition

Definition of Partitionist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Partitionist

partita
partitas
partite
partition
partition chromatography
partition coefficient
partition of unity
partition off
partitionable
partitioned
partitioned off
partitioner
partitioners
partitioning
partitionings
partitionist
partitionists
partitionment
partitionments
partitions
partitive
partitive case
partitive cases
partitively
partitives
partizan
partizans
partizanship
partizanships
partless

Literary usage of Partitionist

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

1. Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of by Gidon Gottlieb (1993)
"... eschew the division of Bosnia into ethnic cantons, and which repudiate the policies of ethnic cleansing, nevertheless have a strong partitionist flavor. ..."

2. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1907)
"BW Bacon of Yale is also a partitionist. His two articles in the Hibbert Journal (i, 51 tff., ii, 323(1.) are characterized as '.highly original, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of the Vice Chancellor by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Thomas Plumer, John Leach (1829)
"It does not in the case of Tithes constitute a valid title in itself, though it may afford evidence of a title possessed immemorially by a partitionist, ..."

4. Japan Or Germany: The Inside Story of the Struggle in Siberia by Frederic Abernethy Coleman (1918)
"You are an obstructionist and a partitionist. If I was a Russian the first thing I would do would be to banish some of your kind. ..."

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