A person engaged in promoting factional interests; someone who actively pursues factional goals and encourages division.
From faction + -eer (suffix indicating someone engaged in an activity, from Spanish -er or French -ier). An archaic or literary term suggesting more active promotion of factionalism than 'factionalist.'
This word carries an almost swashbuckling quality — 'factioneer' sounds like someone actively working behind the scenes to stir up factional trouble, like a historical political operative.
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