He had to judge the people as justice Errant […]; to equip his milites, send them duly in war-time to the King; — strive every way that the Commonweal, in his quarter of it, take no damage.
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Commonweal
/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/
Synonyms for "commonweal" (70 found)
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Noun(3 words)
common goodbody politiccivic welfare
allyarchduchyarchdukedombody politicbuffer statecaptive nationchieftaincychieftainrychild welfarecity statecity-state
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nationalitypolispolitypossessionpowerprincipalityprincipateprotectorateprovincepublic welfarepuppet governmentpuppet regimerealmrepublicsatelliteseneschaltysettlementsocial servicesocial welfaresocial work
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He [David Gelernter] yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told.
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It’s easy to imagine that the tools they developed for settling disputes about Star Wars won’t be up to the challenge of saving some informational commonweal, but then again, what does modern politics resemble more than a vicious fandom at war with itself?
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[…] hit semeth that men haue ben longe abused in calling Rempublica a commune weale. And they which do suppose it so to be called for that, that euery thinge shulde be to all men in commune without discrepance of any astate or condition, be ther to moued more by sensualite, than by any good reason or inclination to humanite. […] And consequently there may appere lyke deuersitie to be englisshe, betwene a publike weale & a commune weale, as shulde be in latin betwene Res publica and Res plebeia.
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