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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Commonalty \Com"mon*al*ty\, n.; pl. {Commonalties}. [OF. communalt[82]; F. communaut[82], fr. communal. See {Communal}.] 1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. --Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. --Landon. 2. The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
