Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weal-public

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English

Syllables: weal-pub-lic
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the state; commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal

Archaic

Example Sentences

"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."
"“For whereas your Plato judgeth that weal publics shall by this means attain perfect felicity,” More explained in his extended dialogue, "either if philosophers be kings, or else if kings give themselves to the study of philosophy […]”"

Etymology

From weal + public.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

weal-publics (plural) wealpublic (alternative) weal public (alternative)

Questions

What does weal-public mean?: the state; commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal
Where does weal-public come from?: From weal + public.

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