faction
/ˈfæk.ʃən/ noun C1- A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
- Strife; discord.
Plural factions
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“With being an agent of the Bonapartist faction!” Many of our readers may be able to recollect how formidable such an accusation became in the period at which our story is dated.
Now, it never occurred to me to wish for a nearer inspection of these large insects, with their long black claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government intrigues.
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