commonwealthsman

Noun

commonwealthman (plural commonwealthmen)

1. (historical) Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.
   • Other radicals looked for inspiration to England again – though, interestingly, neither to Voltaire's commercial nor Montesquieu's constitutional paragon, but rather to the seventeenth-century Commonwealthmen.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 222