partisan
/ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/ noun B2- An adherent to a party or faction.
- A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
- A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
Plural partisans
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Still, marquise, it has been so with other usurpers—Cromwell, for instance, who was not half so bad as Napoleon, had his partisans and advocates.”
Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans.
de Villefort to purify Marseilles of his partisans.
Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment—we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of “moderation”—but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantès.
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