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ˈruralist
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. A countryman, peasant.
1739H. Coventry Philemon to Hydaspes iii. 66 An Image, which must have pleaded so strongly with our Egyptian Ruralists for a direct and unqualified Adoration of the solar Orb. 1756T. Amory Buncle (1770) II. 172 The Egyptian ruralists, without a creed and without a philosophy. 1822Lamb Elia 1, Distant Correspondents, Four poor elms, from whose smoke-dyed barks, the theme of jesting ruralists, I picked my first lady-birds. 1892Temple Bar June 176 His childish faith..and absence of all hypocrisy make him [the Russian peasant] one of the most interesting ruralists in Europe.
2. An advocate of country as opposed to town life; one who leaves the town for the country.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 326 The London season is over. Spite of the showery weather, the ruralists carry the day. 1889Whittier Prose Wks. II. 248 The mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off. |