Multitude vs Commonalty - What's the difference?
multitude | commonalty | Synonyms |
A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
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The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
* Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.
(chiefly, in the plural) The common people; the commonality
A group of things having similar characteristics
A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
As nouns the difference between multitude and commonalty
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while commonalty is the common people; the commonality.multitude
English
(wikipedia multitude)Noun
(en noun)- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
