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What is "public-spirited"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
public-spirited
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ public-spirited citizens
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any public-spirited citizen would have been.
▪ I had never felt public-spirited before.
▪ If that were all, I'd applaud it as a wise and public-spirited action and I hope it starts a trend.
▪ It was most kind and public-spirited of you to look after the seat for us in this way.
▪ Mr Beard, of Northlands, Chester-le-Street, was commended for his public-spirited action.
▪ No doubt she was supervising the school debating society or another of her public-spirited activities.
▪ There were so many evening meetings to attend ... Jean never questioned where her public-spirited husband was really going.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Public-spirited

Public-spirited \Pub"lic-spir`it*ed\, a.

  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men.

  2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure.
    --Addison. [1913 Webster] -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, adv. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

Wiktionary
public-spirited

a. Having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public.

WordNet
public-spirited

adj. showing unselfish interest in the public welfare; "a public-spirited citizen"

Usage examples of "public-spirited".

He himself, though busily engaged on what sounds like very public-spirited research work on allergies and their cause (he has ten English girls here as his patients), has agreed to see me daily in the hope that together we may be able to bridge the gap between the migration of the de Bleuvilles from France and their subsequent transference, as Blofelds, from Augsburg to Gdynia.

The brothels where such public-spirited ladies worked were known as Crimping Houses.

It was Anastasia who had ordered the murder of a public-spirited citizen named Arnold Schuster who had recognised a famous bank robber, Willy Sutton (Willy the Actor) and informed the police.

Frankenstein's monster was unhappy and destructive, whereas the people Trout energized in the neighborhood of the Academy, although most of them wouldn't have won any beauty contests, were by and large cheerful and public-spirited.

This is the point I want to make, though: Frankenstein's monster was unhappy and destructive, whereas the people Trout energized in the neighborhood of the Academy, although most of them wouldn't have won any beauty contests, were by and large cheerful and public-spirited.

Father's sueing some Finnish character in the Federal District Court, but the Finnish character's got himself a sneaky adjournment, on the grounds that all public-spirited bacteriologists should be off fighting the plague.

It's a deal with a mission—a worthy, public-spirited mission—to manage the nationalized properties of the various People's States of South America, to teach their workers our modern techniques of production, to help the underprivileged who've never had a chance, to—" He broke off abruptly, though she had merely sat looking at him without shifting her glance.