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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin

Meaning of "the body politic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE BODY POLITIC

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE BODY POLITIC

the blood
the Bloodless Revolution
the blues
the boards
the boat race
the Boche
the bollocks
the bomb
the book
the boondocks
the boot
the boot is on the other foot
the Border
the Bosporus
the bottle
the bounce
the bourgeoisie
the Bowery
the box
the boy

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE BODY POLITIC

aerolitic
body politic
chrysolitic
clitic
critic
encephalitic
enclitic
Glagolitic
impolitic
marlitic
oolitic
ophiolitic
pearlitic
pelitic
politic
rhyolitic
spherulitic
staurolitic
syphilitic
zeolitic
zoolitic

Synonyms and antonyms of the body politic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the body politic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE BODY POLITIC

Find out the translation of the body politic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the body politic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the body politic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

政治体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el cuerpo político
570 millions of speakers

English

the body politic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राजनीति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجسم السياسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

политическое общество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

o corpo político
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শরীরের রাজনৈতিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le corps politique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Politik tubuh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die politischen Körper
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

国政
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

몸 의 정치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Awak politik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cơ thể chính trị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடல் அரசியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शरीर राजकारण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ceset politikası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

il corpo politico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciało polityczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

політичне суспільство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corpul politic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

το πολιτικό σώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die politieke bestel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

samhällskroppen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

den politiske kropp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the body politic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE BODY POLITIC»

The term «the body politic» is normally little used and occupies the 113.887 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE BODY POLITIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the body politic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the body politic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the body politic

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4 QUOTES WITH «THE BODY POLITIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the body politic.
1
B. R. Ambedkar
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
2
Samuel Freeman Miller
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
3
Tariq Ramadan
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
4
Bayard Rustin
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE BODY POLITIC»

Discover the use of the body politic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the body politic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America
Will we soon be counting robots, cyborgs, and chimeras among our friends and family?The first book to unpackour love/hate relationship with science from our country's origins to today, The Body Politic is essential reading for science buffs ...
Jonathan D. Moreno, 2011
2
The Book of the Body Politic
This is the first translation into modern English of Christine de Pizan's major political work, The Book of the Body Politic (c. 1407).
Christine, Kate Langdon Forhan, 1994
3
The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary ...
Drawing on some 2,000 sources, this is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time.
Antoine de Baecque, 1997
4
Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for ...
Healing the Body Politic recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable ...
Sandra C. Smith-Nonini, 2010
5
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's ...
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national.
Kenneth Olwig, 2002
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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation.
Jane K. Cowan, 1990
7
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social ...
Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing.
Jonathan Gil Harris, 1998
8
Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public ...
In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes that this concept of autonomous art marks not a withdrawal from the political realm but the ultimate embodiment of Enlightenment political culture, a response to a crisis in the ...
Jonathan M. Hess, 1999
9
Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic
This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in post-communist Hungary; patriotism and ...
Ellen E. Berry, 1995
10
Fashioning the body politic: dress, gender, citizenship
Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the French Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and protest.
Wendy Parkins, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE BODY POLITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the body politic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Conscience and the body politic
Bureaucrats have social status and power. They also possess personal knowledge of the rules. So, as a reasonably educated Indian citizen knows, it is pointless ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Ben Carson should just operate on bodies, not the body politic
The Republican Party's disingenuous exploitation of identity politics explains why ... Unfortunately, he thinks he can now operate on the body politic, and, sorry, ... «The Guardian, May 15»
3
Millions Severed From the Body Politic
When brought beneath its axe, the disenfranchised is severed from the body politic and condemned to the lowest form of citizenship.” By continuing to deny ... «American Civil Liberties Union News and Information, Mar 15»
4
Lincoln's Five-State Corpse Tour
She handed her husband's body over to the body politic. The people's grief, and the people's martyr, would take precedence over the family's mourning and ... «Slate Magazine, Feb 15»
5
a blow to the body politic
AS the Liberal Party confronts the option of switching to Malcolm Turnbull over Tony Abbott the policy earth is moving at the same time — the consequence of ... «The Australian, Feb 15»
6
Never-ending tapeworm festers in the body politic
It is widely known that Sir Peter Tapsell, aged 84 and the father of the House, is not just a man but a national institution. I am always surprised that the ... «The Times, Jan 15»
7
Doctor to the body politic: how a Whig outsider became a Tory hero
Eighteenth-century Britain was rich in outsize political figures: the Pitts, father and son; the defiant rapscallion and demagogue John Wilkes; the prince of ... «New Statesman, Dec 14»
8
Scoppe: Tribalism: the poison that is consuming the body politic
THE NOTE arrived in my inbox during my Saturday morning cake-baking marathon (11 in one day; a personal best) from a man who was outraged by my column ... «The State, Nov 14»
9
Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen'
Claudia Rankine's laugh comes out of the body as an explosion of complex contradictions: mirth, disappointment, irony, dismay. Sitting in her living room in ... «Los Angeles Times, Oct 14»
10
The Body Politic
It was 4 am, and I was in a McDonald's in Naha, the capital city of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. Down the street—International Street—was the ... «The Nation., Apr 14»

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