Antonyms for faction
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fak-shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæk ʃən |
Definition of faction
Origin :- c.1500, from Middle French faction (14c.) and directly from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "political party, class of persons," literally "a making or doing," from past participle stem of facere "to do" (see factitious). In ancient Rome, "one of the companies of contractors for the chariot races in the circus."
- noun group sharing a belief or cause
- noun conflict, strife
- The Greenwich faction knew how to take advantage of this disposition.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Honor, I did not lift my hand against him; but I was in the quarrel with his faction.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- The people looked upon her as belonging to them more than she had done before, and faction was silenced by the general delight.
- Extract from : « The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete » by Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
- All the Kings of faction received in their turns his homage and felicitations.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete » by Lewis Goldsmith
- In what age or what country was there ever a man so ‘left by faction?’
- Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller
- The report of the Tuam Herald reads like a faction fight in a whiskey-shop.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- He stands untrammeled and uncommitted to any faction whatever.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 » by Various
- But the faction Barrios joined needed to fear no political betrayal.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- But they were too powerful an instrument to escape the eye of faction.
- Extract from : « Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 » by Various
- They had no faction behind them to uphold them against the king.
- Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
Synonyms for faction
- band
- bloc
- bunch
- cabal
- camp
- caucus
- cell
- circle
- clan
- clique
- club
- coalition
- combination
- combine
- combo
- concern
- conclave
- confederacy
- conspiracy
- contingent
- coterie
- crew
- crowd
- design
- disagreement
- discord
- disharmony
- dissension
- disunity
- division
- divisiveness
- entente
- friction
- gang
- guild
- infighting
- insiders
- intrigue
- junta
- knot
- lobby
- machine
- minority
- mob
- network
- offshoot
- outfit
- partnership
- party
- pressure group
- quarrelsomeness
- rebellion
- ring
- schism
- sect
- section
- sector
- sedition
- set
- side
- splinter group
- team
- tumult
- turbulence
- unit
- wing
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