Faction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a clique within a larger group
• a small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics
• dissension within an organization
• a literary and cinematic genre in which real events are used as a basis for a fictional narrative or dramatization
• (dissenting) minority group within a larger body
• One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
• 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.
• Tumult; discord; dissension.
• a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
• a dissenting clique

Words related to FACTION

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Words that contain FACTION

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How to use FACTION in a sentence

• How, when I was gone, rose bitter fight and faction, barons and knights striving together which should be Duke.
• Ursicinus had been driven from Rome, but Damasus had had trouble with the priests of his faction.
• This example was shortly followed by the other chiefs of his faction.
• It reflected city life, the disputes of faction, and the personal quarrels of authors.
• The greater part of the Jews were slain by their own countrymen of the opposite faction and an innumerable multitude threw themselves down from the walls.
• From another point, the faction of Lamb Laudher fluttering in blood-red ribbons, marched at a solemn pace towards the church-yard.
• From this period it is probably that the faction of Non-intrusionists resolved upon abandoning the church.
• The nomination of Alicia Reynolds as vice-president was hardly less opposed by the other faction, though it was carried in spite of protest.
• The names were afterwards torn off and affixed to another petition which served better the purposes of the popular faction.
• But the zeal of the Scots, as is usual among religious sects, was very feeble when not stimulated either by faction or by interest.
• Never man, so zealous for a faction, was so much respected and esteemed even by the opposite factions.
• The Dutch, though divided among themselves by faction, were unanimously averse to any measure that might involve them in the approaching war.
• It was on the night of the 16th of January that the faction put their conspiracy into execution.
• The other faction, which, since the revolution, has been obliged to cultivate popularity, sometimes found it necessary to employ like artifices.
• Every faction, in short, follows its own particular illusion.
• She offered the most obstinate resistance to the Turks as well as to the discontented faction among the Serbs.
• But the Chief of this sect, discovering the aims of each faction, acted with the utmost consistency, circumspection, and firmness.
• A like amount being at length raised by the adverse faction, the question at once arose as to who should be the arbiter.
• It lowered the legitimate spirit of party to the nameless spirit of faction.
• The Burleigh faction succeeded in getting for Raleigh whatever credit there was in both cases, though Essex was better entitled to it.
• It states definitely the position assumed by him and his faction against the government of this State and of the United States.
• We need not add more, for we trust to you to see to it that he stirs up no faction in favour of his master in those parts.
• It will be impossible to keep the new tribunals clear of the worst spirit of faction.
• We’re friends before we’re partisans of either faction.
• Every effort was now to be made to defeat this faction against him, headed by Clarke.

Similar words containing FAC without suffix tion

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