State
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Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or sub-entity (such as an autonomous territory of a country).
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Etymology
From Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel”), from stare (“to stand”).
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See also
- Status
- State of nature
- Nascent state
- City-state
- Welfare state
- Police state
- State (printmaking)
- Altered state of consciousness
- Separation of church and state
- Mental state
- Persistent vegetative state
- State within a state
- The Myth of the State (1946) by Ernst Cassirer
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