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commonweal
/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/
noun 2
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5ADJ.
informational
VERB + COMMONWEAL
reasons, saving
COMMONWEAL + NOUN
quarter
PREP.
in
ADV.
again, then
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noun
1
The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.
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.
He [David Gelernter] yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told.
2
The body politic; republic.
[…] 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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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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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
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