body politic

noun

, Political Science.

1. a people regarded as a political body under an organized government.

body politic

noun

1. the body politic
   the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state

Word History and Origins

Origin of body politic¹

1425–75; late Middle English bodi politik

Example Sentences

In fact, it’s still not widely absorbed in the body politic.

From Time

Female bodies have long served as metaphor when we talk about colonization, often standing in for land or the body politic, but rarely are they given the space to seek retribution for the oppressive horrors inflicted on them.

From Time

The violent, anti-democratic impulses of Christian nationalism still course through the veins of our body politic, waiting for the next opportunistic strongman willing to put them to use.

From Time

This strategy of feeding and seeding intentional racial and class divisions into the body politic spilled over into the inevitable violence that ideas of supremacy always produce.

From Time

As Reagan injected the toxicity of racial division into the American body politic, Jackson spoke about “coming up together”.

From The Daily Beast

Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.

From The Daily Beast

A divisive selfishness had emerged in the late 1960s that had begun to dominate the body politic.

From The Daily Beast

Our nation may have healed, but there are still exposed nerves that, when touched, cause trauma to the body politic.

From The Daily Beast

Government activism on behalf of the common man was an unforgivable sin to be extirpated from the body politic.

From The Daily Beast

It will make the parties horizontal layers in the body politic.

From Project Gutenberg

The knight was becoming superfluous in the economy of the body politic.

From Project Gutenberg

But there is a new commandment added to the list of those to be memorized by the body-politic.

From Project Gutenberg

The wrong done the body politic may fester unseen, but it festers on all the same.

From Project Gutenberg

It would be the thrusting of a probe deep into the tenderest and sorest parts of the Confederate body-politic.

From Project Gutenberg