Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being a state (a polity).
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 World1 more example
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
Origin
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