English Explanatory Dictionary

personal union

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.
  2. Hypostatic union; the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one individual existence (person).

Word forms

personal union personal unions

Etymology

In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).

Synonyms

composite monarchy composite state hypostatic union
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