Polity
['pɒlɪtɪ] or ['pɑləti]
Definition
(noun.) shrewd or crafty management of public affairs; 'we was innocent of stratagems and polity'.
(noun.) a politically organized unit.
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Definition
(n.) The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
(n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.
(n.) Policy; art; management.
Editor: Theresa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Form of government, civil constitution.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- Socrates proceeds: I have now to prove that this scheme is advantageous and also consistent with our entire polity. Plato. The Republic.
- If one son of a king were a philosopher, and had obedient citizens, he might bring the ideal polity into being. Plato. The Republic.
- Wise in his daily work was he: To fruits of diligence, And not to faiths or polity, He plied his utmost sense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And now we have traced also the first germination of the idea of a _world polity_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I suspect you and he are brewing some bad polities, else you would not be seeing so much of the lively man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Polities and Medicine are sufficiently disagreeable to quarrel upon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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