plural polities
1
: political organization
2
: a specific form of political organization
3
: a politically organized unit
4
a
: the form or constitution of a politically organized unit
b
: the form of government of a religious denomination
Examples of polity in a Sentence
the polities of medieval Italy
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Healthy democracy, like good health, requires adherence to a particular set of norms and behaviors, and the price of neglect is not just sick polities but sick people.
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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
Humanity, or at least parts of it, is building understanding about populations, demographies, personalities, and polities.
—Joanna J. Bryson, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2022
In this view, Kim was not only custodian of the American polity but its inheritor, alongside the nation’s Asian, Latino, and black populace—what the white revanchists yearning for, say, the 80 percent white America of 1980, might refer to as a Great Replacement.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
More cynically, these books are celebrity autobiographies for a polity that has seen healthier days.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
Humanity, or at least parts of it, is building understanding about populations, demographies, personalities, and polities.
—Joanna J. Bryson, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2022
In this view, Kim was not only custodian of the American polity but its inheritor, alongside the nation’s Asian, Latino, and black populace—what the white revanchists yearning for, say, the 80 percent white America of 1980, might refer to as a Great Replacement.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
More cynically, these books are celebrity autobiographies for a polity that has seen healthier days.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Polity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polity. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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