commonweal

1. (archaic) The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.Examples: "He had to judge the people as justice Errant […]; to equip his milites, send them duly in war-time to the King; — strive every way that the Commonweal, in his quarter of it, take no damage."; "He [David Gelernter] yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told."; "It’s easy to imagine that the tools they developed for settling disputes about Star Wars won’t be up to the challenge of saving some informational commonweal, but then again, what does modern politics resemble more than a vicious fandom at war with itself?"Synonyms: res publicaarchaic