polity
/ˈpɑ.lə.ti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain."
- "Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire."
- "The utopian community at Ephrata flourished for forty years, and the last celibates at Ephrata died after the turn of the century. It had continuing influences reaching far into the nineteenth century, and in some measure anticipated Mormon polity and cosmology."
- "Of course, other visions of Buddhist polity and its relationship to monastic life have occurred throughout the Buddhist world. For example in the seventeenth century Tibetan Buddhists successfully established a theocracy under the guidance of monks […]"
- "New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire."
Etymology
From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”). Doublet of police, policy, and polis (“police”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: politie, polītīa, πολιτεία
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɑ.lə.ti/
- British English: /ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/