The common people; the commonality.
The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.
A group of things having similar characteristics.
A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
[…] and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and after the commonalty cried at once: Sir Launcelot hath won the field whosoever say nay.
From Middle English comunalte, communalte, from Old French comunalté, comunauté (modern communauté), probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās. Some senses are influenced by comm...
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