public spirit
Example Sentences
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Lapsley intimated that the real estate firms just happen to be showing their public spirit earlier than other contributors.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
Developers are not going to forgo more lucrative options simply out of a sense of public spirit.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021
Perhaps the Ryder and Presidents Cup lose a tad of luster because match play is not as much a novelty, but those events are more fueled by public spirit and patriotism than playing formats.
From Golf Digest • May 7, 2020
And that has come to function as a kind of public spirit, that China has never in its very long history actually had.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2012
It was perhaps not less personal, but was more ethical; it professed at least to be animated not by private enmity but by public spirit.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
