Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The public good or welfare.
- n. Archaic A commonwealth or republic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The public good; the common welfare of the nation or community.
- n. A commonwealth; the body politic; a community.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Commonwealth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the good of a community
Examples
“When you understand Illinois politics, Obama’s emphasis on “bipartisanship” takes on a sinister air, since in Illinois the central faultline undermining the commonweal is not Republican vs. Democrat but Politician vs. Public.”
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“Together, communities are greater when the commonweal is the central concern.”
“Indeed, this rejection of the idea of socially and economically significant State intervention in the affairs of the commonweal is the very essence of the ideology of the Whigs, whether neo-Catholic or non-Catholic.”
Catholic Whiggery:The Neo-Conservative Betrayal Of Church Social Teaching
“Public money should only be spent in support of our mutual intersts - or what used to be known as the commonweal - in either good or bad economic times.”
“The power of average people is their freedom to act on their own judgement, to set and pursue their own goals, to earn and keep their own property without being looted by the "commonweal", to take responsibility for their own actions.”
“This, my friend, is why right-wing policies inevitably fail by scandal or repression: the basic conservative position is that there is no such thing as a "commonweal," it's everyone for himself.”
“It is of interest that the term commonwealth is derived from the medieval English word "commonweal" which means common well-being.”
Towards Commonwealth Unity through the Sims Travelling Professorship
“Certainly no more solid than the duty of Congress to attend to the "commonweal" of the people.”
“Congress was created as a place where the 'commonweal' was the business of the day and that wealth was supposed to include all people in the civil body politic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘commonweal’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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vocab
numinous, gloze, diffident, soporific, lissome, rebarbative, trope, deliquesce, abjure, obdurate, pugilistic, puerile and 265 more...
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The Good Soldier
Words taken from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
concatenation, vorticist, imagiste, auk, acquaintanceship, perforce, tapageu, jeunes, minuet, outsound, sedulous, goodheartedness and 105 more...
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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The Bow of Idealism
gerrymander, bloc, antebellum, quorum, genuflect, filibuster, caucus, contravene, calumny, kakistocracy, hegemony, attaché and 13 more...
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
velleity, fealty, peripetia, bellwether, commonweal, imponderable, solipsism, soubrette, timbre, effulgent, placate, deplorable and 56 more...
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