commonweal

or com·mon weal

[ kom-uhn-weel ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

commonweal

/ ˈkɒmənˌwiːl /

First recorded in 1350–1400, commonweal is from Middle English comen wele. See common, weal ¹

He was offered a job as literary editor of Commonweal, but “withstood the temptation.”

They are the three riddles of the sphinx of fate, to which the human commonweal must find an answer or perish.

They did nothing to develop the consciousness of a world commonweal overriding sovereigns and foreign offices.

Bonaparte represents an economic class, and that the most numerous in the commonweal of France—the Allotment Farmer.

Commonweal of this Realm of England, p. 49: “That which is possessed of many in common is neglected of all.”

The story ran as a serial through thirty-nine numbers of The Commonweal.

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