citizen
noun
a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection (distinguished from alien).
citizenly
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a word derived from
citizen.
Example Sentences
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It seems unlikely that these women would display such ardent citizenly autonomy if they didn't enjoy similar autonomy in the home.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
This eventually spawned a playful citizenly response: Protest and Survive.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2017
They have no large sense of citizenly motives; they feel no sense of responsibility for any part of the public life save that which lies within their own narrow round of action.”
From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons
It was through forgetting this that his uncle died at St. Helena—it was through forgetting this that Louis Philippe quitted Paris in a very citizenly but most un-kingly manner.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
He never went blindly by anything small, over which the world's man and business man stalk so scornfully; just as, on the other hand, he never stopped before any pomp of citizenly life.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
