Weal-public

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the state; commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal archaic, historical

    "A few years later Sir Thomas More staged a fictional debate in his Utopia between the author, Cardinal Morton, the explorer Raphael, and a lawyer, in which all applied the concept of the weal public to assess English society."

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"A few years later Sir Thomas More staged a fictional debate in his Utopia between the author, Cardinal Morton, the explorer Raphael, and a lawyer, in which all applied the concept of the weal public to assess English society."

Etymology

From weal + public.

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