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commonweal

noun
/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/

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.

  1. inherited from comun wele

Definitions

  1. The common good

    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.

  2. The body politic

    The body politic; republic.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA