Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state; the commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal: properly two words, like
body politic .
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Examples
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Thus the lawyer has said, again and again, in his generation, that any change in such a state of things “must needs bring the weal-public into jeopardy and hazard”.
Miscellaneous Papers 2007
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These indentured servants were just as trying as the Indians and the negroes, and in particular showed a lawless disregard for their masters 'property, an indifference to the authority of the weal-public, and a lazy disinclination to work; one writer describes them as "tender fingered in cold weather."
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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England but that it must needs bring the weal-public into great jeopardy and hazard’, and as he was thus saying, he shaked his head, and made
Miscellaneous Papers 2007
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