Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who favored the English commonwealth.
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Examples
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He turned and left the hut so soon as he had uttered these last words; and, as if ashamed of the tenderness which had mingled with his accents, the young commonwealth's-man turned and walked sternly and resolvedly forth into the moonlight, which now was spreading its broad light and autumnal shadows over the woodland.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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