Weal
noun
A red, swollen mark on skin, often from a strap or whip.
He had a weal on his back from where he was whipped.
noun
Prosperity or wellbeing.
The new policy was created for the weal of the people.
Often appears as...
- common weal
- general weal
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
noun
A red, swollen mark on skin, often from a strap or whip.
He had a weal on his back from where he was whipped.
noun
Prosperity or wellbeing.
The new policy was created for the weal of the people.
Often appears as...
- common weal
- general weal
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Harm
Indicates a physical injury, often from being hit by something.
The tight rope left a painful weal around his wrist.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Effect
Refers to a mark that can be seen on the skin.
After the game, her arms showed several weals from the paintball hits.
Pro Tip 3/3Short-term Mark
Weal suggests a temporary skin mark, unlike a scar.
The weals from the rope burns will heal in a few days.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Harm
Indicates a physical injury, often from being hit by something.
The tight rope left a painful weal around his wrist.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Effect
Refers to a mark that can be seen on the skin.
After the game, her arms showed several weals from the paintball hits.
Pro Tip 3/3Short-term Mark
Weal suggests a temporary skin mark, unlike a scar.
The weals from the rope burns will heal in a few days.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Harm
Indicates a physical injury, often from being hit by something.
The tight rope left a painful weal around his wrist.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Effect
Refers to a mark that can be seen on the skin.
After the game, her arms showed several weals from the paintball hits.
Pro Tip 3/3Short-term Mark
Weal suggests a temporary skin mark, unlike a scar.
The weals from the rope burns will heal in a few days.
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Quote examples
Ambrose Burnside
American Politician
I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.
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Edward Thorndike
American Psychologist
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
American President
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Quote examples
Ambrose Burnside
American Politician
I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.
Quote examples
Edward Thorndike
American Psychologist
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Quote examples
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.
Quote examples
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American President
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Quote examples
Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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