party-spirited love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the spirit of party or of partizans.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective devoted to a political party

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Examples

  • And, if we minister to a people who, like the Corinthians, need to be fed with milk and not meat; like them carnal, factious, party-spirited, and if we would delicately hint to them their character -- let us do it indirectly, following Paul's example, when he put restraint on the fullness of matter within, and discoursed only on the elements of

    The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society William Withington

  • This individual, whose character forms so fine a relief to the party-spirited and debased condition of the British army in the time of George the

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

  • "How the love to our neighbor, which is commanded by God is a thing different from natural compassion, from natural affection, from party-spirited love, from any love whatever that arises merely from self-love, and from the love which enthusiasts and heretics have for one another."

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • Such persons will be very apt to attach themselves to particular persons, to use particular names, to say things merely because others do, and to act in a party-spirited way. "

    Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

  • Such persons will be very apt to attach themselves to particular persons, to use particular names, to say things merely because others do, and to act in a party-spirited way. "

    Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

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