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語源

From Latin factiosus (“divisive; inclined to separate”); derivative of factio.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfækʃəs/^[1]
  • 韻: -ækʃəs

形容詞

factious (comparative more factious, superlative most factious)

1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions.
2. Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 230:

     I heard that she left off powder, patches, and rouge, for a month when his third consort died, and he grew religious—whether out of grief or gratitude, I never heard; then she grew factious, for the sake of your own King, and thought to strew the way to the altar with straws instead of flowers. I applaud her spirit in fighting for a crown.

派生語

• factiousness noun
• factiously adverb

参考

• factitious

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