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/
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odds and sodspeasantryplebspopulaceproletariatrabblerank and fileriffraffsharednessthe peoplethird estatetrashuniversalityunwashedunwashed massesworking class
pawnpeopleplain folkspublicsalt of the earthsecond fiddlesecondaryshopkeepersubalternsubordinatetoilerunderlingyes man
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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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