Weal-public
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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