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Knight :: Knight (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest..

Dissension :: Dissension (n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel..

Terrorist :: Terrorist (n.) One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France..

Adherent :: Adherent (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church..

Herodian :: Herodian (n.) One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ..

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff..

Jacobite :: "Jacobite (n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary..

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) Any member of such a corps.

Moderate :: Moderate (a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist..

Machine :: Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends..

Factionary :: Factionary (a.) Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.

Spoilsmonger :: Spoilsman (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service..

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

Mossback :: Mossback (n.) A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.

Carlist :: Carlist (n.) A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain..

Faction :: Faction (n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good..

Miquelet :: Miquelet (n.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

Partisanship :: Partisanship (n.) The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan..

Zealot :: Zealot (n.) One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan..

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