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n. (common purpose English)
Usage examples of "common purposes".
These girls they had taken for the common purposes for which luscious white females are employed by red masters.
An additional utility of the collar, though it did not count as one of its four common purposes, was that it made it easier to put the girl in various ties.
She, surely, was the sort of woman that would be purchased, at least usually, to fulfill one of the more common purposes of slave girls.
He pointed at the gladiator with whom we have been hitherto acquainted, he who had been raised in a small festung village, that of Sim Giadini, he who had been behind Pulendius, and to his right, on the evening of the captain's table, he who had looked upon the officer of the court, who was even of the blood, as though she might be naught but a common slave, one such that she might be purchased in any market, and thence put to the common purposes of slaves.
The science of government being therefore so practical in itself and intended for such practical purposes-- a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be-- it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Reason, in which the natures of things were designed for common purposes?
Such a system of money-arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society.
Her voice had a high-pitched, cooing note, which prolonged words and cut them short until the English language seemed no longer fit for common purposes.
It was decreed a sacrilege to use the holy words for common purposes.