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The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
Examples
- The United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, also known variously as the United Kingdoms, Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
- Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.
- The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Hypostatic union; the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one individual existence (person).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Christian, countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
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Meaning relationships
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In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
共主邦聯 /共主邦联
(gòngzhǔ bānglián)
— union of states under the same monarch
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Georgian:
პერსონალური უნია
(ṗersonaluri unia)
— union of states under the same monarch
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Georgian:
პირადი უნია
(ṗiradi unia)
— union of states under the same monarch
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Italian:
unione personale
— union of states under the same monarch
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Japanese:
同君連合
(dōkun rengō)
— union of states under the same monarch
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Korean:
동군연합
(donggunyeonhap)
— union of states under the same monarch
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Polish:
unia personalna
— union of states under the same monarch
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Portuguese:
união personal
— union of states under the same monarch
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Spanish:
unión personal
— union of states under the same monarch
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Italian:
unione ipostatica
— union of Christ's human and divine natures in one person
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Polish:
unia hipostatyczna
— union of Christ's human and divine natures in one person
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Portuguese:
união hispostática
— union of Christ's human and divine natures in one person
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Spanish:
unión hipostática
— union of Christ's human and divine natures in one person
