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commoner 1. a person who does not belong to the nobility 2. a person who has a right in or over common land jointly with another or others 3. Brit a student at a university or other institution who is not on a scholarship How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| (still to the commoner, always to the commoner) pa- tience, meanness of spirit, non-resistance under op- pression; and she introduced heritable ranks and aristocracies, and taught all the Christian populations of the earth to bow down to them and worship them. The duel with knives in a dark room was once a commoner feature of Southwestern life than it is likely to be again. Our conversations have, I think, made sufficiently clear to you the tenor of my life and purposes: a tenor unsuited, I am aware, to the commoner order of minds. |
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