Meaning of governed in English

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  2. Noun
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  1. Noun

    governed

    Definitions

    1. the body of people who are citizens of a particular government

    Examples

    • « governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed--Declaration of Independence »

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  • « An educated people can be easily governed. »
    Frederick The Great
  • « Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. »
    Rudolf Arnheim
  • « And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? »
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • « Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. »
    Mary Wollstonecraft
  • « A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. »
    Aldous Huxley

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