请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 polity
释义

polity

/ˈpɒlɪti /
noun (plural polities)
1A form or process of civil government or constitution: the civic humanist’s polity a vision of a plural Arab polity...
  • They faced an enormous task of transforming their economies and polities from centralized communist control to the market economies and pluralist democracies that membership required.
  • That must be defended at all costs to preserve our pluralism and democratic polity.
  • The confidence that nonbelievers can reason morally seems to be a precondition for a religiously plural democratic polity.
1.1An organized society; a state as a political entity: the period in which West Germany was a distinct polity...
  • In other words, in spite of the facade of the modern state, power in most African polities progresses informally, between patron and client along lines of reciprocity.
  • Only by pushing for a name change can the country build itself as a polity and thereby establish a national identity.
  • What about the legitimacy of citing the decisions of constitutional courts in other polities?

Origin

Mid 16th century: from obsolete French politie, via Latin from Greek politeia 'citizenship, government', from politēs 'citizen', from polis 'city'.

Rhymes

随便看

 

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/22 17:29:53