commonwealthman
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From commonwealth + man.
Noun
[edit]commonwealthman (plural commonwealthmen)
- (historical) Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 222:
- 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.
- 2008, David Dwan, The Great Community, page 52:
- 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.