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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commonalty \Com"mon*al*ty\, n.; pl {Commonalties}. [OF.
communalt['e]; F. communaut['e], fr communal. See
{Communal}.]
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. --Blackstone.
The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of
the commonalty in plenteousness only. --Landon.
2. The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.] --Hooker.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
commonalty
n : class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or
gentle rank [syn: {commonality}, {commons}]
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