partyman

plural partymen

1. dated outside IndiagovernmentA partisan; a member of a political party or faction.

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   2023 July 11, “Expelled partymen may join us again if they apologise: AIADMK”, in Deccan Herald

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   It was even rumored, that he had confessed; and the zealous partymen, who, no doubt, had secretly, notwithstanding their credulity, entertained some scruple with regard to the popish conspiracy, expressed great triumph on this occasion.

   1757, David Hume, “[Charles II.] Chapter VI.”, in The History of Great Britain, under the House of Stuart, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 327

   England has partymen in profusion; in court-livery and sans-culottes: if a solitary, sedate republican should rise up in that country, they would unite and tear him to pieces […]

   1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, 2nd edition, volume 2, page 360

   Conventions, of course, were composed mostly of the most active partymen.

   2000, Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics, →ISBN, page 43