weal
weal is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. Chaucer. As we love the weal of our souls and bodies. Bacon. To him linked in weal or woe. Milton. Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high. Macaulay.
- 2.The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] The special watchmen of our English weal. Shak.
- 3.To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advantage
- all
- aright
- behalf
- behoof
- beneficial
- benefit
- benevolence
- benevolent
- best
- blessing
- boon
- boot
- chance
- chivalric
- chivalry
- citizen
- civism
- commendable
- common
- communism
- communist
- consummation
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolitanism
- cosmopolite
- country
- devoutly
- errant
- errantry
- far
- favor
- for
- fortune
- gain
- generosity
- generous
- gift
- giving
- godsend
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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