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Definition of Factions
1. faction [n] - See also: faction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Factions
Literary usage of Factions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1881)
"A material difference may be observed in the games of anti- Th« factions quity:
... The four factions soon acquired a legal establishment and a mysterious ..."
2. The French Revolution by Louis Madelin (1916)
"CHAPTER XXXI ROBESPIERRE AND THE " factions " January-March 1794 The " factions."
Danton's distress of mind. Maximilien Robespierre. ..."
3. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"They were factions four in number, but owing to the obscurity of the Red circus,
and the White, they were practically reduced to two, the Blue and the ..."
4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"The difficulty which troubled the Whigs at the outset was that of uniting the
many factions, old and new, which divided their ranks and those of the ..."
5. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"The electors, only twelve in number (two Frenchmen, four Italians, and six Romans),
were divided into the factions of the Orsini and Colonna, ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The division in the House reproduced itself in the army, which was now split into
factions, but in which there had at last emerged triumphant that cross ..."
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