societaladj.

1843 M. Hugo Hints & Refl. Rail Travellers II. ii. iv. 157 Our monetary system, like that of trade, or any other societal occupation, is unfair from first to last.

1898 Catal. 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.

1903 A. G. Keller Queries in Ethnogr. 55 The Societal System.

1959 Sunday 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’.

1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iv. vii. 328 The Sequoia Club has been something we all needed—part of our societal system of checks and balances.

2000 D. Bar-Tal Shared Beliefs in Society iii. 39 Societal beliefs..constitute societal knowledge accumulated by society members.

1906 W. G. Sumner Folkways i. 58 We want to get from them [sc. mores] their educational value, which consists in the stimulus or warning as to what is..societally good or bad.

1973 Black World Mar. 28 Educational systems are constructed to socialize individuals to perform societally defined and necessitated tasks.

2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 May (Central ed.) d8/6 Municipal planning is too ‘uncoordinated’ to achieve ‘societally beneficial’ goals like open-space preservation.