commonalty
Americannoun
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Also the ordinary people, as distinguished from those with authority, rank, station, etc.; the common people.
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an incorporated body or its members.
noun
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the ordinary people as distinct from those with authority, rank, or title, esp when considered as a political and social unit or estate of the realm Compare third estate
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the members of an incorporated society
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Etymology
Origin of commonalty
1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French comunalte, equivalent to comunal- communal + -te -ty 2; replacing Middle English communaute < Old French
Example Sentences
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Greenwood notes a commonalty between Darwin and the other death fakers she’s studied: “Their ideas, while bizarre and demented, do possess a certain internal logic,” like the famed “reality distortion field” generated by Steve Jobs.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2016
This point, however obvious, is instrumental in establishing the commonalty of friendship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Happy the editor who can turn sensational "copy" into proof of his devotion to the welfare of the commonalty.
From Time Magazine Archive
It made its deepest impression as an attempt to bring poetry back to the general understanding of Americans, to make its language that of the commonalty of citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Lancelot rode by, laughing at some private joke with the Queen, the commonalty were amazed that be could laugh.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The schools are spread across sectors and wards, but share some commonalties.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
“I feel like the commonalties in our existence are so much greater than differences in the surface form of language,” he told me.
From Slate ● May 6, 2016
At the first ceremony, Johnson said that he found the political commonalties of the two countries striking, given that their “ethnic and cultural components” were “totally different.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2014
They ignore the defining fact that film and television, despite some commonalties, belong to practical experiences impossible to reconcile.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
These commonalties prove relevant to understanding the role language, in conjunction with logic, exercises on various stages of social and economic development.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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