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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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.
“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 […]”
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Weal-public means (archaic, historical) the state; commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal.
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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.
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