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polity Definition

pol·ity (pälə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. political or governmental organization
  2. a society or institution with an organized government; state; body politic
  3. a specific form of church government

Etymology: MFr politie < L politia: see policy

polity Synonyms

polity

n.

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.