common weal
- a variation of commonweal.
Example Sentences
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Is shaming undeserved when people give not a second’s thought to the common weal?
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2012
Yes, that is true, namely, when freedom was at the expense of the common weal.
From Time Magazine Archive
In developing Associated, said he, Hopson had worked tirelessly for the common weal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Certainly, we will not permit anybody freely to dispose of his earnings if thereby the common weal is interfered with.
From Time Magazine Archive
He dareth not make raid on goods his next friend hath With open violence, nor loose his hand to steal, Save in community and for the common weal ’Twixt Saxon man and man.
From Satan Absolved by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
