单词 | agrarian outrage |
释义 | > as lemmasagrarian outrage agrarian outrage n. now historical an act of violence originating in conflict between landlords and tenants; (as a mass noun) such acts collectively. ΚΠ 1833 Morning Post 2 Mar. The second part of the Bill was directed against Agrarian outrage and disturbance. 1834 Irish Monthly Mag. Feb. 77 The immense number of penal..enactments, passed by the Union or English Parliament, to put down the almost continual Agrarian outrages. 1876 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) xiii. 23 The Irish land system familiarised the peasantry with agrarian outrages. 1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. vi. 98 By every post there were reports of fresh agrarian outrages: houses burnt, cattle killed or hamstrung, landlords shot or hacked to pieces. < as lemmas |
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