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statedom en · NOUN

Etymology

From state + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (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:

Relateds

statehood · stateship