statedom

English

Etymology

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.

See also

• statehood
• stateship