Subpolity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A subdivision of a polity.

    "It is quite conceivable that human history should have begun with a single all-embracing polity, and that as this grew in magnitude and complexity it should have been decentralized and divided into subpolities, each united within by its local peculiarities."

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"It is quite conceivable that human history should have begun with a single all-embracing polity, and that as this grew in magnitude and complexity it should have been decentralized and divided into subpolities, each united within by its local peculiarities."

Etymology

From sub- + polity.

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