The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.
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Commonalty
//ˈkɒmənəlti//
Synonyms for "commonalty" (54 found)
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Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Translations
18 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
4 entries- ihmiset noun (common people)
- kansa noun (common people)
- kansa noun (class lacking clerical or noble rank)
- luokka noun (group having similar characteristics)
Greek
1 entries- λαός noun (common people)
Italian
4 entries- plebe noun (class lacking clerical or noble rank)
- popolino noun (common people)
- popolo noun (common people)
- volgo noun (common people)
Latin
1 entries- plēbs noun (common people)
Russian
4 entries- наро́д noun (common people)
- общины noun (common people)
- простолюдины noun (common people)
- простолюдины noun (class lacking clerical or noble rank)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
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1906, Sinclair Lewis, "Unknown Undergraduates" first published in the Yale Literary Magazine, June, 1906, in The Man from Main Street: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904-1950, Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane (eds.), New York: Pocket Books, 1962, p. 122, Besides the men who are unknown but important there is the commonalty, whom you regard as mere entities, whose very names you do not know, or will forget before your triennial.
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[…] and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and after the commonalty cried at once: Sir Launcelot hath won the field whosoever say nay.
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