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Definition of Commonalty
1. Noun. A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank.
Generic synonyms: Class, Social Class, Socio-economic Class, Stratum
Derivative terms: Common, Common
Definition of Commonalty
1. n. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
Definition of Commonalty
1. Noun. (chiefly in the plural) The common people; the commonality ¹
2. Noun. A group of things having similar characteristics ¹
3. Noun. A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commonalty
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonalty
Literary usage of Commonalty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the King's Courts at Westminster by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1799)
"The Warden and commonalty of the ... to an- '. fwer the wardens and commonalty
ot the r the wardens and commonalty of the ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"Br. Corporations, pi. 64. cites 21 E. 4. 15. ir. In debt it was agreed, that of
mayor and commonalty it is no plea that the mayor is net ef found memory, ..."
3. The History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom by Henry Alworth Merewether, Archibald John Stephens (1835)
"T. mayor and commonalty; and recover his seisin and his damages against the mayor
and the commonalty, notwithstanding he himself is one of that body. ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"(g) A mayor and commonalty may have an action of covenant upon a (rf ) 1. It is
laid down that a corporation aggregate cannot be summoned into the ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... for us, our heirs and successors, declare and grant, that the said Mayor and
commonalty and citizens, and their successors for ever, may have, hold, ..."
6. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1901)
"Letters patent of tiie Duke of Lancaster's executors certifying that t/ie Mayor
and commonalty were enfeoffed of the manor of Wrangle. Box 15, No. 179'. ..."
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