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personal union

noun

Etymology

In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).

  1. derived from persönliche Vereinigung

Definitions

  1. The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared…

    The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.

    • Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.
    • The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold.

  2. Hypostatic union

    Hypostatic union; the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one individual existence (person).

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