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soˈcietal, a.
[f. societ-y + -al1.]
Societary; social. Hence soˈcietally adv.
1898Catal. Yale Univ. 1898–9 204 A study of the evolution of the institutions of the democratic republic, of the societal organization, and of the history of the money of account. 1903A. G. Keller Queries in Ethnography 55 The Societal System. 1907[see mores 1]. 1956Kenyon Rev. XVIII. 411 Trager and Smith's results are amazingly coherent, both practically and societally. 1959Sunday Times 22 Nov. 16/4 His [sc. Kipling's] passion..for the values of what D. H. Lawrence (borrowing the revolting word from Dr. Trigant Burrow) called ‘societal man’. 1964[see egocentric a.]. 1973Black World Mar. 28 Educational systems are constructed to socialize individuals to perform societally defined and necessitated tasks. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Nov. 1449/1 Leading educators believe that the schools must keep pace with broad societal changes. 1979‘A. Hailey’ Overload iv. vii. 328 The Sequoia Club has been something we all needed—part of our societal system of checks and balances. |