Commoner

//ˈkɒm.ə.nə(ɹ)//

"Commoner" in a Sentence (16 examples)

It fascinates many that Prince William would marry a commoner.

One of England's kings abdicated the throne in order to marry a commoner.

Before Kate was married last year, some expressed concerns that as she was born a commoner, she would struggle with the pressure of being thrust into the public eye.

Tycho Brahe, though of noble decent, married a commoner. Together they had three sons and five daughters.

Tycho fell in love with Kirsten, a commoner.

The Commoner class starts with no bonuses at the start of the game.

You write like a commoner!

Akihito is a popular ruler, seen as more approachable than his father was. He married a commoner, the Empress Michiko.

The Pharisees believed a commoner who was learned in Torah was superior to a king or priest who was not.

Sunday [train] services were far commoner than in later years.

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All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.

It was revealed on Friday that Mountbatten Windsor is in line to receive a large one-off payment and an annual stipend designed to prevent him overspending in his new life as a commoner after a back-and-forth about where he would go after leaving Royal Lodge.

There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.

Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.

From the Counsell he was carried home to the Prison, and there for many days kept with bread and water, so that had the proudest Anchorite, pretending to the highest abstinence, been Commoner with him, it would have tried his swiftest Devotion to keepe pace with him.

O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one.

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