factiousness

This factiousness is a dreadful thing, but we know not how to end it.

There is, by the end, a certain distress about Jews' factiousness - their proclivity for fighting among themselves.

During his six years' government Meilyr had to contend against the factiousness of the Norman nobles.

Yet the detail itself gains a kind of power as the reader begins to share the movement's frustration at the seeming endlessness of the war and at its own internal factiousness.

But Henri did not escape the results of the incurable factiousness which showed itself more strongly perhaps among the French Huguenots than among any other of the numerous armed oppositions of the 17th century.

Irked by their failure to secure full English support for Habsburg policies, they may have attributed to factiousness and incompetence what was simply a sensible reluctance to tie England too closely to the Imperial coat-tails.