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noun
Weal  n.  The mark of a stripe. See Wale.


Weal  n.  
1.
A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. "God... grant you wele and prosperity." "As we love the weal of our souls and bodies." "To him linked in weal or woe." "Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high."
2.
The body politic; the state; common wealth. (Obs.) "The special watchmen of our English weal."


verb
Weal  v. t.  To mark with stripes. See Wale.


Weal  v. t.  To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. (Obs.)





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... amazed silence and in no way regarded, I left the compartment. I was near Eisenach, and I wished some good fairy would put in my hand that inkpot which Luther threw at the devil. Severity towards children is the rule. The child for weal or woe is in the complete control of its parents, and corporal punishment is allowed in the schools. The grim saying, "Saure Wochen, frohe Feste," seems to express the pedagogic philosophy. The only trouble is that nature does not give ...
— Mobilizing Woman-Power • Harriot Stanton Blatch
... human, though not a very reasonable way of framing your views on public questions; and it does not make either for consistency or for usefulness as a voter. It is not good to back one's self into opinions of what makes for the common weal. ...
— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner
... number of names submitted by parliament; and this commission was to receive the exclusive right to print—and that, in the city of Paris alone—such books as might be approved by the proper authorities and be found necessary to the public weal. Until the appointment of the twelve censors the press was to remain idle! Nor was the suspension of the prohibitory ordinance to continue a day longer than the term required by the monarch to decide whether he preferred to modify its provisions or leave them ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... claim Our fond devotion ever; And, by the glory of her name, Our brave forefathers' honest fame, We swear—no foe shall sever Her children from their parent's side; Though parted by the wave, In weal or woe, whate'er betide, We swear to die, or save Her honour from the rebel band Whose ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... stood mildly motionless a moment, with a look of sagacious, humane meditation on his face, as if pondering upon the chances of the important enterprise: one which, perhaps, might in the sequel affect the weal or woe of nations yet to come. Then suddenly clapping his hand to his capacious coat-pocket, dragged out a bit of cork with some hen's feathers, and hurrying to his room, took out his knife, and proceeded to whittle away at a shuttlecock of an original scientific construction, which ...
— Israel Potter • Herman Melville


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