Noun : A partition of the set (.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to partition off a dormitory into cubicles.    From Dictionary.com. 

But if you had asked Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness in 1985 whether they would have been prepared to sit down with unionists in what Republicans would have called a partitionist assembly, they would have looked at you in disbelief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamas must reshape itself] Reference

Plus the fact that Labour these days are probably the most partitionist of all the major parties in the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some thoughts on Fianna Fail's recent discovery of the north] Reference

One of the themes of this book concerns the extent to which the period sees the entrenchment of that partitionist history, and the acceptance of a partitionist attitude in 'the south'.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Luck & The Irish: A Brief History of Change From 1970'] Reference

Paul Bew has written about the stealthy advance of 'partitionist history' - the way that historians project into the past the assumption of the border, with which we have all grown up, but which formally entered Irish history only in 1920.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Luck & The Irish: A Brief History of Change From 1970'] Reference

When it comes to Iraq, one of the most boring and philistine habits of our media is the insistence on using partitionist and segregationist language that most journalists would I hope scorn to employ if they were discussing a society they actually knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: IT'S NEVER THAT SIMPLE.] Reference

The country is a cobbling together of regional, religious, and ethnic nationalisms, and its founding, in 1947, resulted in Pakistan's becoming, along with Israel, one of the two "faith-based" states to emerge from the partitionist policy of a dying British colonialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Hughes: Balkanizing Pakistan: A Collective National Security Strategy] Reference

Adams & Co's electoral defeat is worth repetition too: "As a somewhat partitionist observer maliciously remarked to me, even with the recent remarkable improvement in Irish-British relations, the people of this State are not yet ready to welcome the intervention of a member of the British parliament in the domestic political affairs of this State!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Complain...] Reference

Irish and British partitionist politicians of all stripes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indymedia Ireland] Reference

This is a discussion on A partitionist attitude within the Northern Ireland forums, part of the Regional Discussion category on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie] Reference

If people want to take this partitionist attitude towards our friend across the border, well I have little faith in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie] Reference

The partitionist mentality on display in this claim is bad enough, but it also indicates a staggering level of economic illiteracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

This was evident when they made it an absolute pre-condition that the entry fee into negotiations was the acceptance of a partitionist outcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference

We've heard that sort of BS from the gombeen kleptocrats of Fianna Fail, and I'd expect nothing less than partitionist language from the 'Republican' party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference

Every Irish person has that right and such partitionist nonsense is rich indeed coming from a party which likes to parade its supposed all-Ireland credentials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

As Gerry rightly points out, the BBC is a partitionist broadcaster and, as a result, those of us who live down here can't watch this part of the programme on iPlayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

It is difficult to avoid the partitionist conclusion that for many voters in the Republic, a Sinn Fein led by Gerry Adams is perceived as predominantly a Northern Ireland party and one which, despite the peace process, has Troubles baggage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

Public sector advertising was never a significant factor in the funding of Lá Nua as it received so little because of its location north of the border (and the partitionist mentality of the public sector in the south) that this cutback had little or no effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

In fact his antipathy towards the Good Friday Agreement is so great that he does not even make a pretence of journalistic analysis but rather chooses to ignore the historical facts and vents his partitionist spleen at what he describes as pandering (I paraphrase) to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indymedia Ireland] Reference

Furious that Sinn Fein would take seats in the Republic's partitionist parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

When the United Party disintegrated, they joined the partitionist Reform Party, whose policy was also based on race. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"partitionist nonsense" row - when a southern SF councillor-led group disrupted a joint-press conference with the Irish Labour Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

I call on the IFA to reconsider their partitionist and negative position and work to assist our agricultural sector right across the country. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

A partitionist attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie] Reference