polity Definition
pol·ity (päl′ə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- political or governmental organization
- a society or institution with an organized government; state; body politic
- a specific form of church government
Etymology: MFr politie < L politia: see policy
polity Synonyms
polity Usage Examples
Converse of object
- divide: It would be better if P S Khabra dissociated himself from all attempts to divide the polity and set nationality against nationality.
- base: A dissenting standpoint arguing for a secular polity based on rational principles has also existed.
- build: It has helped to build a distinctive Welsh polity and civil society.
- emerge: The rapid pace of globalization has meant that the emerging polity that is the EU has experienced a highly accelerated rate of development.
- create: Instead of creating left-right polity, the laboring classes became small landowners, which resulted in the creation of a large rural conservative society.
- change: Economics or Institutions The practices researched and commended to Business Economics students related to the Business Man and his decisions within changing polities.
Preposition: as
whole: Yet the extent to which the region remained aloof from the Tudor polity as a whole can be exaggerated.
Adjective modifier
- ecclesiastical: Some consider him the ' father of Anglicanism ' for his Ecclesiastical Polity, a radical book on religion.
- democratic: The guarantee of minority rights is the mark of a genuinely democratic polity.
- Islamic: The fabric of the Islamic polity itself seemed to be crumbling.
- European: He merely notes that the European polity is likely to be characterized by multi- levels of power.
- British: The problem in the British polity is that the two-party hegemony can't adapt easily.
Modifies a noun
management: The first concerns the polity management dimension of the Coalition's statecraft.
Noun used with modifier
- church: Where were the Nonconformist organs, and the anxious seekers after divine light in creed and rationality in church polity?
- world: But does the melting together of national economies require a world polity?
- pre-modern: It is this arcane, pre-modern polity that is being challenged by the demand for Scottish independence.
Possessives
Elizabethan: Other aspects of the Elizabethan ' mixed polity ' have been explored by historians: notably the reception and perception of immigrants into England.
Preposition: in
association: Cambridge: Polity in association with the Open University.
Preposition: of
nation: A country that occupies its pride of place in the polity of nations.
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