Polity Synonyms

pŏlĭ-tē
An organized geopolitical unit
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. body politic
  2. country
  3. land
  4. nation
  5. state
The form of government of a social organization
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. republic
  2. commonwealth
  3. civil order
  4. country

Words Related to Polity

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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.

  • 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.

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

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