Steady adherence to a party.
1844. Human nature having received all the passions, or inherent faculties, necessary to association, cannot escape individual sufferings and general calamities, whilst, despising the social permanent revelation, it persists in living in industrial incoherence and family partyism.—Fourier, in Mary Hennell, ‘Social System,’ p. 191 (N.E.D.).
1846. Let me say one word in relation to the “partyism” of this question. It is no party question. It is a mighty American question.—Mr. Hannegan of Indiana on the augmentation of the navy, U.S. Senate, Jan. 27: Cong. Globe, p. 256.
1886. Goldwin Smith (N.E.D.).
1903. The vast canvas whereon he painted American partyism with all its deformities.—The Dial (Chicago), March 16. (N.E.D.)
