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commonwealthman

noun

Etymology

From commonwealth + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as commonwealthman — “commonwealth + man”

Definitions

  1. Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an…

    Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.

    • Other radicals looked for inspiration to England again – though, interestingly, neither to Voltaire's commercial nor Montesquieu's constitutional paragon, but rather to the seventeenth-century Commonwealthmen.
    • Machiavelli had a decisive influence on the English political thinker and commonwealthman James Harrington, who in turn had an enormous impact on Irish patriots such as John Toland, Robert Molesworth and Francis Hutcheson.

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