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polity
[ pol-i-tee ]
noun
- a particular form or system of government:
civil polity; ecclesiastical polity.
- the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body:
The polity of ancient Athens became a standard for later governments.
- government or administrative regulation:
The colonists demanded independence in matters of internal polity.
- a state or other organized community or body.
polity
/ ˈɒɪɪ /
noun
- a form of government or organization of a state, church, society, etc; constitution
- a politically organized society, state, city, etc
- the management of public or civil affairs
- political organization
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of polity1
Example Sentences
"I think taking into account the circumstances and the compulsions of a coalition polity, I have done as best as I could do under the circumstances."
They would be better served to read the polity as Black/not-Black and look for regional and economic differences between racial and ethnic groups.
It is a nation, a polity recast in his time and split pretty much down the middle on its constitutional future.
The Reconstruction amendments were seeking to address the status of newly freed formerly enslaved Black people and actually incorporate them into the polity and create an egalitarian society.
So it will be, unhappily for our rapidly decomposing polity, with this apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
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