Commonwealthman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Commonwealthman is a noun meaning (historical) Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.
Meaning
(historical) Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.
Example Sentences
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.
Machiavelli had a decisive influence on the English political thinker and commonwealthman James Harrington, who in turn had an enormous impact on Irish patriots such as John Toland, Robert Molesworth and Francis Hutcheson.
Word Forms
- commonwealthmen
- commonwealthsman
- commonwealth's-man
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include commonwealthsman, commonwealth's-man, commonwealth, loyalist, tory, commune.
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