citizenry

English

Etymology

citizen +‎ -ry

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Noun

citizenry (countable and uncountable, plural citizenries)

  1. The group of all citizens; citizens taken collectively.
    • 1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5:
      It's one of the main selling points of the prison business: that they keep the sexually non-conformist or "deviant" out of sight of the respectable citizenry, especially to "protect" the children.

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