weal
1well-being, prosperity, or happiness: the public weal;weal and woe.
Obsolete. wealth or riches.
Obsolete. the body politic; the state.
Origin of weal
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Other definitions for weal (2 of 2)
Origin of weal
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How to use weal in a sentence
Liberals: Not high taxes per se, for their own sake, but enough taxes to serve the public weal.
Life shaped for eternal woe, eternal weal, by the deeds of a few earthly moments.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisPoverty does not change its power of holding the members together through weal or woe.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsNothing could inspire him with greater hope for the public weal.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) | John WestNeither ask, nor fret, nor strive:Where thy path is, thou shall go.He who made the streams of timeWafts thee down to weal or woe.
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles Kingsley
Our life, our morals, are affecting our children for weal or woe, whether we realise or shirk the fact.
The Quiver 3/1900 | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for weal (1 of 2)
/ (wiːl) /
a raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow: Also called: wale, welt, wheal
Origin of weal
1British Dictionary definitions for weal (2 of 2)
/ (wiːl) /
archaic prosperity or wellbeing (now esp in the phrases the public weal, the common weal)
obsolete the state
obsolete wealth
Origin of weal
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