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factiousness
Part of speech: NounDisposition to raise opposition on frivolous grounds.
Usage examples "factiousness":- As employed in France, the interpellation lends itself too readily to the ends of sheer factiousness to be adjudged a valuable feature of parliamentary procedure. - "The Governments of Europe", Frederic Austin Ogg.
- His distress of mind probably arose from a belated perception of the factiousness of his own conduct and from grief at the unrelieved gloom of the end of a career whose meridian splendour had shed lustre upon him. - "William Pitt and the Great War", John Holland Rose.