Meaning of party spirit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feeling or sense of celebration or enjoyment.
   uncountable
2. The feeling of common purpose and togetherness experienced or shown by members or supporters of a group, especially a political party, sometimes accompanied by unreasonable animosity towards members or supporters of other groups.
   uncountable

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Examples

“'Americans always have such a lot of misdirected party spirit,' said Gosling. 'One came to a party I have two years ago and drank so much that he died soon after.'”

“[...] [Denis Parsons] Burkitt would enter the party spirit and spare no pains to entertain the guests. As soon as he could get away, he would proceed on his rounds, accompanied by his wife and his son.”

“None of them were particularly in the party spirit, and no one had attempted to speak once the band on the other side of the room had begun playing.”

“Fifty or sixty people were already holding drinks and getting absorbed in the party spirit when Sonia walked hand in hand with Joel to the center bar.”

“Well, I know that dampens your party spirit, but I knew you'd want to know. Let's have a beer in tribute to the guy.”

“In the mean while, We will obſerve that beſides the Paſſion and Party Spirit, which poſſeſſ almoſt all Thoſe, who write on this Subject, there is a Diſtinction, which ſhould be conſtantly made in Caſes of this Nature, and which They never make, or never make exactly enough. They compare the Proceedings, without comparing the Situations.”

“Party-Spirit was the great and uncontroulable Adviſer and Defender of all things: Its groſſeſt Miſrepreſentations were readily believed; its moſt furious Dictates moſt chearfully obeyed.”

“Some facetious members of the club gave, in a few years, local notoriety to this election; and, when party spirit ran high in the days of Wilkes and Liberty, it was easy to create an appetite for a burlesque election among the lower orders of the Metropolis.”

“Even Monseigneur Bienvenu then had his hour of party spirit, his hour of bitterness, his clouds. [...] [I]t would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a royalist, [...]”

“Certainly there have been bitterly contested elections in this country before. Party spirit is always rife, and in such vivid, excitable, disputatious communities as ours are, and I trust always will be, it is the very soul of freedom.”

“In the early days, men of first-class ability, such as Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, and James Madison, did not disdain membership in the state legislatures. But the development of party spirit and machine politics brought with it a great change. Then came the legislative caucus; and party politics soon reigned in every capital.”

“Now the works of the flesh are plain: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“Official approval of a certain line of thought could and did produce a party-spirit which was narrow and polemical. At no time indeed was Thomism as such imposed on Catholic philosophers in a way which would imply that it was part of the Catholic faith.”

“Whether seen by fellow activists or photographed by the media, perhaps when MPs, Ministers and even the PM are seen backing the party, this supremely egalitarian business of electioneering is a rare opportunity to engender some party spirit and loyalty – some communitas, again [...].”

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