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polity

noun
/ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/UK/ˈpɑ.lə.ti/CA/ˈpɔl.ə.ti/

Etymology

From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”). Doublet of police, policy, and polis (“police”).

  1. derived from πολιτεία
  2. derived from polītīa
  3. derived from politie

Definitions

  1. Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.

    • 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.

  2. A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that…

    A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.

    • New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

The neighborhood

Derived

divine polity, interpolity, subpolity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at polity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at polity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at polity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA