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Factious adj.

Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; said of persons. "Factious for the house of Lancaster."

Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels. "Headlong zeal or factious fury."

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Etymology of 'Factious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Factious" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was unlawful. It was neither regularly nor irregularly proper;—the supreme legislature had not acknowledged it; the masses of society had not acknowledged it; and the entire project possessed no other character than that of a factious scheme for perpetuating the power of a ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various

... Half absent themselves Because they WILL not come. The factious fools! Well, be it so. But they ...

— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy

... measures they returned to her majesty their hearty thanks, and expressed their sincere hopes that she might speedily finish the good work which had advanced so far notwithstanding "the artful contrivances and envious efforts of a factious and malicious party."(1987) In August a proclamation was made of a suspension of hostilities,(1988) and on the 31st March, 1713, the ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe

... meeting under the presidency of the mayor, at which they declared, with great unanimity, that 'the people of Chauny had never, in fact and of their own free will, adopted the impious and seditious principles introduced in France by a factious minority, and that they regarded the death of the most Christian king, Louis XVI., as the ...

— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... his constitutional authority, and with my attachment to his person. Such, Sire, were the grounds of my letter to the National Assembly; such shall be those of my conduct to the nation and your Majesty, amidst the storms raised around to by hostile or by factious combinations. ...

— Memoirs of General Lafayette • Lafayette

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