statedom

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English

Etymology

From state +‎ -dom.

Noun

statedom (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a state (a polity).
    • 1873, Ernst Curtius, The History of Greece, volume 5, page 222:
      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.
    • 2004, Irene Silverblatt, Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World:
      Standards, rules, protocol— that was the stuff of statedom and bureaucracy; and tribunal members, like their counterparts around the globe, were immersed in them.

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