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a1475 in J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 1.110 Communete [a1425 Bodl. Ȝif Crist wolde for pryde do þis myracle..he wolde in comunalte do þis dede, and not þus oonli in desert].

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome lv. 206 There are degrees of communitie; to liue, that is to say, to eate and drinke together is very good,..but to thinke to haue all things common..is to peruert all.

1632 H. Hawkins tr. G. P. Maffei Fuga Sæculi To Reader sig. ã 3 My End in this worke to haue been, to make a choyce of Liues, not led so much in Solitude, as in Community.

1652 J. Shirley Brothers iv. i, in Six New Playes (1653) Confined To cells, and unfrequented woods, they knew not The fierce vexation of community.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 522. ⁋1 [Marriage] is the foundation of community, and the chief band of society.

1850 E. Bennett Oliver Goldfinch xxi. 110 The majesty, and justice, and righteousness of the law says..that it is a heineous [sic] crime against community; and forthwith the offender is seized.

1880 Hyde Clarke in Nature 203 The dog, either in community (commonly called wild) or in the domesticated state.

1936 T. S. Eliot Coll. Poems 1909–62 (1974) 168 There is no life that is not in community.

1963 Mariner's Mirror 49 312 In a shifting and deracinated society anything that can strengthen the ties of community has surely more than an academic value.