Etymology

personal union

Today it means: The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession. Full definition →

German persönliche Vereinigung
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  1. German · calque ofpersönliche Vereinigung
  2. English todaypersonal union

In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).

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