commonweal
Meanings
noun
- The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.
- The body politic; republic.
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Etymology
From Middle English comun wele, commen wele, comune wele, equivalent to common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”). By the 1520s used by some authors as the equivalent of res publica (republic), alongside commonwealth from about the same time.
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