systasis
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A political union, confederation, or league.
Examples
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It is a worse preservative of a general constitution, than the systasis of Crete, or the confederation of Poland, or any other ill-devised corrective which has yet been imagined, in the necessities produced by an ill-constructed system of government.
Note
The word 'systasis' comes from a Greek word meaning 'stand together'.
