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partyman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɑːtiˌmæn/ (UK)
• /ˈpɑɹtiˌmæn/ (US)

Etymology

From party + -man.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:dated outside India) A partisan; a member of a political party or faction.
   • It was even rumored, that he had confessed; and the zealous partymen, who, no doubt, had secretly, notwithstanding their credulity, entertained some scruple with regard to the popish conspiracy, expressed great triumph on this occasion. 1757, David Hume, “[Charles II.] Chapter VI.”, in The History of Great Britain, under the House of Stuart, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 327:
   • [See title] 2023 July 11, “Expelled partymen may join us again if they apologise: AIADMK”, in Deccan Herald:
   • England has partymen in profusion; in court-livery and sans-culottes: if a solitary, sedate republican should rise up in that country, they would unite and tear him to pieces […] 1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, 2nd edition, volume 2, page 360:
   • Conventions, of course, were composed mostly of the most active partymen. 2000, Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics, →ISBN, page 43:

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