polity
About 4.00 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.
- noun A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Similar words
civil order political system politics government regime policy administration police entity
Often followed by
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Word family
polities
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