Polity Definition

pŏlĭ-tē
polities
noun
polities
Political or governmental organization.
Webster's New World
A society or institution with an organized government; state; body politic.
Webster's New World
A specific form of church government.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
polity
Plural:
polities

Origin of Polity

  • From French politie, from Latin politia (circa. 1530s AD/CE), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia, “polity, policy, the state"); see policy.

    From Wiktionary

  • Obsolete French politie from Old French from Late Latin polītīa the Roman government police

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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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Words Starting With

PPOPOL

Words Ending With

YTYITY

Unscrambles

polity

Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

Starts With P & Ends With YStarts With PO & Ends With YStarts With P & Ends With TY

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With Y