Polity Synonyms

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Synonyms for Polity

nation
(Chiefly historical) An association of students based on their birthplace or ethnicity. syn.
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state
(Computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
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body politic
(Archaic) A corporation.
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civil order
the form of government of a social organization
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country
An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area:
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republic
A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
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commonwealth
Used to refer to a self-governing, autonomous political unit voluntarily associated with the United States, namely, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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land
A country or region.
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territory
A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
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biopolitics
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politics
Political life:
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pluralism
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Polity Sentence Examples

  • In momentary peril of death for fifteen years, he restored in the Vivarais and the Cevennes Presbyterian church polity in all its integrity.

  • They did not get their ideas of church polity from one another, but drew it directly from the New Testament.

  • As one of the three principal systems of ecclesiastical polity known to the Christian Church, Presbyterianism occupies an intermediate position between episcopacy and congregationalism.

  • Yet we do not find that the leaders of the Reformed Church succeeded in establishing at once a fully-developed Presbyterian polity.

  • They were spoken of as" the way."4 They took with them, into the new communities which they formed, the Jewish polity or rule and oversight by elders.

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