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wealpublic

wealpublic is the alternative form of weal-public.

Meaning of weal-public

Noun

weal-public (plural weal-publics)

  1. (archaic, historical) the state; commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal
    • A few years later Sir Thomas More staged a fictional debate in his Utopia between the author, Cardinal Morton, the explorer Raphael, and a lawyer, in which all applied the concept of the weal public to assess English society.2011, Michael Hicks, Richard III

Forms of wealpublic

pluralwealpublics

Questions about wealpublic

What is wealpublic the alternative form of?
Wealpublic is the alternative form of weal-public.

Words near wealpublic in the dictionary

  1. wealful
  2. wealh
  3. wealhs
  4. wealing
  5. weally
  6. wealpublic
  7. weals
  8. wealsman
  9. wealsmen
  10. wealth
  11. wealth tax

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