LekhoriLekhoricomparative form of common: more common
Sunday [train] services were far commoner than in later years.
A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
Someone who is not of noble rank.
All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
From Middle English comoner, comyner, cumuner, equivalent to common + -er.
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A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.