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noun

well-being, prosperity, or happiness: the public weal; weal and woe.

Obsolete. wealth or riches.

Obsolete. the body politic; the state.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English wele, Old English wela; akin to well¹

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On its action depends the fate of the party for weal or woe.

Disturbing the public weal is to be more penalized than simply evading your boss or the taxman.

Their aggression is nasty but brief, and serves the larger weal of the ecosystem.

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noun

wheal.

Origin:
variant of wale¹, with ea of wheal

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weal¹ (wiːl)

—n
	wale, welt, Also called: wheal a raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow

[C19: variant of wale¹, influenced in form by wheal]

weal² (wiːl)

—n
1.	archaic prosperity or wellbeing (now esp in the phrases the public weal, the common weal)
2.	obsolete the state
3.	obsolete wealth

[Old English wela; related to Old Saxon welo, Old High German wolo]

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weal

"well-being," O.E. wela "wealth," in late O.E. also "welfare, well-being," from W.Gmc. *welon, from PIE base *wel- "to wish, will" (see will (v.)). Related to well (adv.).

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weal

"raised mark on skin," 1821, alteration of wale (q.v.).

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weal (wēl)
n.
A ridge on the flesh raised by a blow; a welt.

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"How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end."

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