public spirit's Usage Examples:

"Communauté"), which comes from the Latin communitas "community", "public spirit" (from Latin communis, "common").

the revolution; but they were not distinguished for much talent, or public spirit, and, of course, were soon discontinued, for want of patronage.

connotation of a political movement that called for the exercise of public spirit as well as the search for immediate economic gain.

They were especially famous for their generosity and public spirit.

And his private charities were known to equal his public spirit".

where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical.

in Prussia, where the leadership of one statesman imbued with true public spirit transformed arrogant and perfunctory bureaux into public-spirited instruments.

Wilde, and commending the project for its "real and proper Victorian public spirit", thoroughly condemned the piece itself, in design and execution, comparing.

Library, and fathered the Methuen family of whom an author wrote, "The public spirit and generosity of the Nevins family seems to have no bounds in the town.

clustering like bees around their commander, be by their zeal and public spirit carried all but out of themselves, and devoted wholly to their country.

Plutarch wrote: "The senate, much commending their public spirit, caused the temple to be built and a statue set up in it at the public.

meaning of sensus communis, especially when used to refer to someone's public spirit.

said, 'as strictly honest, and your statesmen as remarkable for their public spirit, integrity, and incorruptibility.

This temple is a tribute to the public spirit of devotion and continued patronage.

Synonyms:

in the public eye; state-supported; unrestricted; exoteric; open; semipublic; unexclusive; national; overt;

Antonyms:

private; esoteric; covert; restricted; classified;