Meaning of commonwealthman | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.

historical

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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