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commonweal

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19
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24
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10
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/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/

Definition of commonweal

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.
    “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.”
    “It’s easy to imagine that the tools they developed for settling disputes about Star Wars won’t be up to the challenge of saving some informational commonweal, but then again, what does modern politics resemble more than a vicious fandom at war with itself?”
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noun

  1. (archaic)The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.
    “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.”
    “It’s easy to imagine that the tools they developed for settling disputes about Star Wars won’t be up to the challenge of saving some informational commonweal, but then again, what does modern politics resemble more than a vicious fandom at war with itself?”
  2. The body politic; republic.

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Etymology

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.

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