statedom
statedom noun: the state of being a state (a polity).
Noun
statedom (uncountable)
- The state of being a state (a polity).
- They despise the petty statedom of Greece, in which the interests of the meanest selfishness are the determining element, and deride a commonwealth, in which the chance of the beans determines who is to govern.1873, Ernst Curtius, The History of Greece, volume 5, page 222
- Standards, rules, protocol— that was the stuff of statedom and bureaucracy; and tribunal members, like their counterparts around the globe, were immersed in them.2004, Irene Silverblatt, Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
Origin of statedom
From state + -dom.
Questions about statedom
- What does statedom mean?
- Statedom means the state of being a state (a polity).
- What part of speech is statedom?
- Statedom is a noun.
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