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Etymology 1

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BorrowedfromMiddle Frenchfaction,fromLatinfactiō(“a group of people acting together, a political faction”),noun of process from perfect passive participlefactus,fromfaciō(“do, make”).Doubletoffashion.

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faction(countableanduncountable,pluralfactions)

  1. (countable)A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses asharedbelieforopiniondifferent from people who are not part of the group.
    • 1748,David Hume,“Of Parties in General — Howfactionsarise and contend.”, inEssays, Moral and Political:
      Realfactionsmay be divided into those from interest, from principle, and from affection
    • 1971,Jesse J. Johnson,Black Armed Forces officers, 1736-1971:
      Prejudice has bred a counterprejudice so that now neitherfactioncan nor will see without distortion.
    • 1976November 28, “Kiangsi army split into two”, inFree China Weekly‎[1],volume XVII, number47,Taipei,page 3:
      The Chinese Communist army in Kiangsi province has split into twofactionsstruggling against each other following the purge of the "gang of four" led by Chiang Ching, according to an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland.
  2. (uncountable)Strife;discord.
    • 1805,Johann Georg Cleminius,Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute,page188:
      Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state offactionand perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
    • 2001,Odd Magne Bakke,"Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition,publ. Mohr Siebeck,→ISBN,page89:
      He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state offactionthan if they govern the city with good order and concord.
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Etymology 2

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Blendoffact+‎fiction.

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faction(uncountable)

  2. (literature,film)A form ofliterature,filmetc., that treatsrealpeople oreventsas if they werefiction;a mix offactand fiction.
    • 1986June 16, W. J. Weatherby, “Blind genius of faction”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      Blind genius offaction/ Obituary of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer [title]
    • 2000,Sue Vice,Holocaust Fiction,Psychology Press,→ISBN,page93:
      Contemporary reviewers offered different labels in attempts to describe the genre ofSchindler's List.Lorna Sage, D.J. Enright and Robert Taubman called it a ‘documentary novel’; Paul Bailey and Gay Firth ‘faction’;[…]
    • 2007November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, inThe Guardian‎[3]:
      [Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy offaction,his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.
  3. Thefactsfound infiction.
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French

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromLatinfactiōnem.Doubletoffaçon.

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factionf(pluralfactions)

  1. act ofkeeping watch
  2. awatchman
  3. (politics)afaction;specifically one which causes trouble

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