Meaning of Polity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
   uncountable, usually
2. A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The utopian community at Ephrata flourished for forty years, and the last⟳ celibates at Ephrata died after the turn⟳ of the century. It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure⟳ anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology.”

“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 […]”

“New polities emerged in Europe after the fall⟳ of the Roman Empire.”

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