English Dictionary

commonweal

名詞

古語 廃用

(obsolete or archaic) The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity / The body politic; republic

日本語の意味

公共の福祉（社会全体の利益や幸福） / 公共の利益（全体の繁栄や幸福） / 国民全体、あるいは共和国（体政治としての意味）

After the famine, the magistrate appealed to the commonweal, insisting that grain be shared among all households.

飢饉の後、役人は公益に訴え、穀物をすべての世帯で分配するよう主張した。

意味（1）

(obsolete or archaic) The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity

He had to judge the people as justice Errant […]; to equip his milites, send them duly in war-time to the King; — strive every way that the Commonweal, in his quarter of it, take no damage.

意味（2）

The body politic; republic

… hit semeth that men haue ben longe abused in calling Rempublica a commune weale. And they which do suppose it so to be called for that, that euery thinge shulde be to all men in commune without discrepance of any astate or condition, be ther to moued more by sensualite, than by any good reason or inclination to humanite. … And consequently there may appere lyke deuersitie to be englisshe, betwene a publike weale & a commune weale, as shulde be in latin betwene Res publica and Res plebeia.

commonweals （ plural ）