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Definition of Polities
1. polity [n] - See also: polity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polities
Literary usage of Polities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks by Basil Edward Hammond (1895)
"ARISTOTLE S CLASSIFICATION OF polities. I HAVE now described, ... Further, since
he observed that in all the polities power was lodged in the hands either ..."
2. The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks by Basil Edward Hammond (1895)
"ARISTOTLE S CLASSIFICATION OF polities. I HAVE now described, in a roughly
chronological order, the different kinds of government which successively ..."
3. Studies in Religion and Theology: The Church: in Idea and in History by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1910)
"Church polities, which correspond to the names already described, ... IV These,
then, are the polities we have to study, and to study from the standpoint of ..."
4. History of the French Protestant Refugees, from the Revocation of the Edict by Charles ( Weiss (1854)
"IN Holland, as in England and Germany, the refugees exercised a powerful influence
in relation to polities and war, literature and religion, and industry ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Consistent to liis old tory polities he opposed catholic emancipation in his last
speech (April lHi>9), and voted against the Reform Bill (May l^-'! ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1800)
"X. The History of the polities of Great Britain and France* 'from the Time of
the Conference at Pillnitz to the Declaration of War against ..."
7. Political Science: Or, The State Theoretically and Practically Considered by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1877)
"INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL CAUSES ON polities, AND OF polities ON THE PEOPLE.
... as those which give shape to polities—are often very questionable. ..."
8. Moral Philosophy: Ethics Deontology and Natural Law by Joseph Rickaby (1919)
"Of the Variety of polities. 1. One polity alone is against the natural law ; that
is every polity which proves itself unworkable and inefficient : for the ..."
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