On its action depends the fate of the party for weal or woe.
Their aggression is nasty but brief, and serves the larger weal of the ecosystem.
In a broader sense, injury may also have been caused to the common weal.
He studied their interests and sought their weal with unremitting zeal.
There's a cup mark or raised weal in the soft white stone, the explanatory text has been obliterated.
Upon the will and character of a single individual hung suspended, apparently, the life and weal of every human being.
The present has new elements, which must work out new weal or woe.
British Dictionary definitions for weal
weal1
/wiːl/
noun
1.
a raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow Also called wale, welt, wheal
Word Origin
C19: variant of wale1, influenced in form by wheal
weal2
/wiːl/
noun
1.
(archaic) prosperity or wellbeing (now esp in the phrases the public weal, the common weal)
2.
(obsolete) the state
3.
(obsolete) wealth
Word Origin
Old English wela; related to Old Saxon welo, Old High German wolo
Word Origin and History for weal
n.
"well-being," Old English wela "wealth," in late Old English also "welfare, well-being," from West Germanic *welon, from PIE root *wel- "to wish, will" (see will (v.)). Related to well (adv.).
"raised mark on skin," 1821, alteration of wale (q.v.).
weal in Medicine
weal (wēl) n. A ridge on the flesh raised by a blow; a welt.