Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corruption of comedy.
- noun Community.
- noun The commonalty; the common people.
- noun In Scots law, a piece of land belonging to two or more common proprietors, and in general burdened with sundry inferior rights of servitude, such as feal and divot, etc.; a common.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Scots Law) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Shakespeare's jesting mispronunciation of
comedy , put into the mouth of Christopher Sly.
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Examples
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Lisa, we use the word “commonty” just to mean “land-held-in-common”.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Lisa, we use the word “commonty” just to mean “land-held-in-common”.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009
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“Down the commonty” is part of the mysterious family vocabulary which incomers (such as the people our children marry) find so difficult at first, although all have mastered it by now.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Every year on Games Day I take pictures of the specimen conifers we have planted down the commonty, with associated grandchildren.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009
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“Down the commonty” is part of the mysterious family vocabulary which incomers (such as the people our children marry) find so difficult at first, although all have mastered it by now.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009
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Every year on Games Day I take pictures of the specimen conifers we have planted down the commonty, with associated grandchildren.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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We planted ours when James and Cathy married, and it has struggled in the dry soil of the commonty, but is at last growing faster than the children.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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We planted ours when James and Cathy married, and it has struggled in the dry soil of the commonty, but is at last growing faster than the children.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009
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It was a good commonty, as Christopher Sly says; nor were we sorry when it was done.
The Newcomes 2006
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Is not a commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?
bilby commented on the word commonty
Taming of the Shrew.
October 25, 2015