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Definition of Commonweals
1. commonweal [n] - See also: commonweal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonweals
Literary usage of Commonweals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recently Recovered "lost" Tudor Plays: With Some Others, Comprising Mankind by John Stephen Farmer, Henry Medwall, John Redford (1907)
"That wrong may not ever still reign in place of For, when pleaseth God such
commonweals to restore To their wealth and honour, wherein they were afore, ..."
2. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"And, howbeit the faithful suffer all patiently and undeserved, yet they say they
suffer justly as traitors, heretics, homicides, perturbers of commonweals ..."
3. Publications (1848)
"... that the kingdom of Christ in his church cannot rise or stand without the
falls of those commonweals wherein it is set up, we do believe and profess the ..."
4. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"For the constitution of kingdoms and states, ordinances of cities and commonweals,
and the liberties and freedoms thereof, are not by nature, ..."
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