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commonweal

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/Part of speech nounSorted acelmmnoowStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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  1. the good of a community

Word origin

From Middle English comun wele, commen wele, comune wele, equivalent to common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”). By the 1520s used by some authors as the equivalent of res publica (republic), alongside commonwealth from about the same time.

Used in a sentence

  • He had to judge the people as justice Errant […]; to equip his milites, send them duly in war-time to the King; — strive every way that the Commonweal, in his quarter of it, take no damage.
  • He [David Gelernter] yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told.

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