Polity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Polity is a noun meaning (politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
Meaning
(politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
More Meanings
- (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
Example Sentences
New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.
Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire.
Of course, other visions of Buddhist polity and its relationship to monastic life have occurred throughout the Buddhist world. For example in the seventeenth century Tibetan Buddhists successfully established a theocracy under the guidance of monks […]
Word Forms
- polities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include political, system, politics, government, regime, policy.
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