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com⋅mon⋅weal

  [kom-uhn-weel]
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–noun
1. the common welfare; the public good.
2. Archaic. the body politic; a commonwealth.
Also, common weal.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME comen wele. See common, weal 1
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com·mon·weal   (kŏm'ən-wēl')   
n.  
  1. The public good or welfare.
  2. Archaic A commonwealth or republic.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Commonweal

Com"mon*weal"\, n. [Common + weal.] Commonwealth.

Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. --Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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