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com·mon·al·ty  (km-nl-t)
n. pl. com·mon·al·ties
1. The common people as opposed to the upper classes. Also called commonality.
2. An incorporated body; a corporation.
3. An entire group: the commonalty of laypeople.

[Middle English communalte, from Old French comunalte, from Medieval Latin commnlits, from Late Latin commnlis, of the community; see communal.]

commonalty [ˈkɒmənəltɪ]
n pl -ties
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the ordinary people as distinct from those with authority, rank, or title, esp when considered as a political and social unit or estate of the realm Compare third estate
2. (Law) the members of an incorporated society
[from Old French comunalte, from comunal communal]

Commonalty, Commonty the community; the common people; the corporate body of a town or city.
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Noun1.commonalty - a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
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commonalty
n (form) the commonaltydie Bürgerlichen pl


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As we transfer knowledge from the film to leading their organizations, we shift the conversation so our future leaders reflect upon their own commonalties and differences, helping them respect their differences from others, while becoming critical of those who would suppress differences or present some differences, for example, racial, gender, or class, negatively, stereotypically, or pejoratively.
The charette helped identify the commonalties between good trail design and accessible design.
But the continuities within letters and commonalties shared by them always seem to remain tentative, and analysis based on specifying continuities and commonalities often risks imposing order on materials that defy it.
 
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