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Commonality   /kˌɑmənˈæləti/   Listen
noun
commonality  n.  
1.
The sharing of common attributes.
Synonyms: commonness.
2.
A characteristic held in common; a common feature.


commonality, commonalty  n.  (pl. commonalties)  
1.
The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. "The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees." "The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only."
2.
The majority or bulk of mankind. (Obs.)





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"Commonality" Quotes from Famous Books



... are two orders of those men who are of any rank and dignity: for the commonality is held almost in the condition of slaves, and dares to undertake nothing of itself and is admitted to no deliberation. The greater part, when they are pressed either by debt, or the large amount of their tributes, ...
— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar
... beings, and that everything they do is noble and significant. For the lower species the earth will be restored to the centre of the universe and man to pre-eminence on the earth. Oh, I envy the lot of the commonality in the Rational State! Working their eight hours a day, obeying their betters, convinced of their own grandeur and significance and immortality, they will be marvellously happy, happier than any race ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley
... Pnyx seems to have been introduced about 390 B.C. The original payment was probably only one obol, and then from time to time increased. It was a sign of the relative decay of political interest in Athens when it became needful thus to reward the commonalty for ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
... round and round in the fairy circle; and then I could easily distinguish several stars and other orders of knighthood; French queues and bags contrasted with plain English heads of hair, or professional wigs; old age and youth, nobility and commonalty, all passing each other in the motley swarm. An Englishman who joined me during this my reverie, pointed out to me on my enquiring, princes and lords with their dazzling stars; with which they eclipsed the less brilliant ...
— Travels in England in 1782 • Charles P. Moritz
... same province from superstition, rebellion, calamity, and poverty, which heretofore have horribly raged therein, to religion, obedience, strength, and prosperity. And whereas our beloved and faithful subjects the mayor and commonalty and citizens of our city of London, burning with a flagrant zeal to promote such our pious intention in this behalf, have undertaken a considerable part of the said plantation in Ulster, and are ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin


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