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Party spirit   /pˈɑrti spˈɪrət/   Listen
noun
Party  n.  (pl. parties)  
1.
A part or portion. (Obs.) "The most party of the time."
2.
A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. "Win the noble Brutus to our party." "The peace both parties want is like to last."
3.
A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), A small body of troops dispatched on special service.
4.
A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
5.
One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
6.
The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant. "The cause of both parties shall come before the judges."
7.
Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another. "If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony."
8.
Cause; side; interest. "Have you nothing said Upon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?"
9.
A person; as, he is a queer party. (Now accounted a vulgarism.) Note: "For several generations, our ancestors largely employed party for person; but this use of the word, when it appeared to be reviving, happened to strike, more particularly, the fancy of the vulgar; and the consequence has been, that the polite have chosen to leave it in their undisputed possession."
Party jury (Law), a jury composed of different parties, as one which is half natives and half foreigners.
Party man, a partisan.
Party spirit, a factious and unreasonable temper, not uncommonly shown by party men.
Party verdict, a joint verdict.
Party wall.
(a)
(Arch.) A wall built upon the dividing line between two adjoining properties, usually having half its thickness on each property.
(b)
(Law) A wall that separates adjoining houses, as in a block or row.





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"Party spirit" Quotes from Famous Books



... prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension[obs3], presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; ide fixe; mentis gratissimus error[Lat]; fool's paradise. [causes of misjudgment.2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige. [causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye. [causes of misjudgment. 4] one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... great powers of epigrammatic expression; it almost inevitably leads to the sacrifice of truth and candour to point and antithesis. It is well for Tacitus that we have not the other side of his story recounted by a writer of equal power, but less party spirit and force of expression. In truth, it is probable the world has not lost much by Montesquieu's numerous unpublished manuscripts having been left in an incomplete state. There is no end to the writing of romances, or the annals of human events, but there is a very early limit ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... forbade all trifling. Frances Cromwell was a warm, cheerful, and affectionate girl; but to her it was not given to understand the depth or the refinement of minds such as that of her friend. Her own home was not a peaceful one, for party spirit, that hydra of disunion, raged and ravaged there, without regard to years or sex. The Protector's most beloved child was known to be faithfully attached to the Stuart cause; while his eldest daughter ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... Meade is the pure, simple result of military necessity. His choice is not adulterated by any party spirit. Success may be probable, if Meade is in reality what his colleagues suppose or assert him ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
... the only ones who care for England's future," she said. "I suppose I care a good deal because I'm in the newspaper world, and I know something of what she has to contend against in the way of petty party spirit and the self-aggrandising of some of her so-called leaders, who haven't an ounce of true patriotism, and only want to shout something outrageous in a very loud voice, just to ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page


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