Definitions for polity

polity pol·i·ty

Spelling: [pol-i-tee]
IPA: /ˈpɒl ɪ ti/

Polity is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in polity (ilopty).

Definitions for polity

noun

  1. a particular form or system of government:
  2. the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body:
  3. government or administrative regulation:
  4. a state or other organized community or body.

Origin of polity

1530-40; Latin polītīa Greek polīteía citizenship, government, form of government, commonwealth, equivalent to polī́te-, variant stem of polī́tēs citizen (see polis,

Examples for polity

So we are giving up our polity, to please and to join other denominations.

And Plato's notable sentence in the third book of the polity.

At such a time, there are no settled principles of polity or of action.

We are in a depression because it is our revealed preference, as a polity, not to remedy the problem.

This leads to the enquiry, what is to be the polity of our new state.

It is not a religion only, but a polity; and this in a very peculiar sense.

But as illustrating the polity of the church it is quite valueless.

Sorry, I'm partisan, but I doubt I'm an unusual case in our polity.

In the organization of the native church, what polity shall be given it?

One polity had been pulled down; and no other polity had been set up.

Word Value for polity
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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