weal
1well-being, prosperity, or happiness: the public weal;weal and woe.
Obsolete. wealth or riches.
Obsolete. the body politic; the state.
Origin of weal
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Origin of weal
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How to use weal in a sentence
I turned, every bone in my body ached: the weals of the stirrup-leathers smarted and burned.
In Kings' Byways | Stanley J. WeymanIf I was to bare my arm now I could show you weals that's more colours and brighter than your neckankercher there.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." | G.J. Whyte-MelvilleAt the end of the dance, the boys' backs are seamed with wounds and weals, the scars of which remain through life.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David LivingstoneGreat livid weals crossed each other on the back, and two of the fingers were gone.
Bert Wilson's Twin Cylinder Racer | J. W. DuffieldThere, too, on the skin, were visible the weals of the daily scourgings by which the Archbishop mortified the flesh.
The Ingoldsby Country | Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
British Dictionary definitions for weal (1 of 2)
/ (wiːl) /
a raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow: Also called: wale, welt, wheal
Origin of weal
1British Dictionary definitions for weal (2 of 2)
/ (wiːl) /
archaic prosperity or wellbeing (now esp in the phrases the public weal, the common weal)
obsolete the state
obsolete wealth
Origin of weal
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