Definition of "polities" [polities]

• Plural form of polity. (noun)

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• "They played practical jokes on each other in the open streets; they read the local newspapers to extract the feeblest of gossip; they had a game which they called polities, and which consisted in badging themselves with blue or yellow, according to the choice of their fathers before them; they affected now and then to. haunt bar-parlours and billiard-rooms, and made good resolutions when they had smoked or drunk more than their stomachs would support."
• "In a related way, the actual structure of democratic polities is relatively transparent."
• "A great virtue of democratic polities is stability."