单词 | peasantry |
释义 | peasantryn. 1. Peasants collectively; a body or class of peasants.Sometimes with more precise meaning; see note s.v. peasant n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > collectively land-peoplec1440 peasantry1551 country people?1556 countryfolk1557 rusticity1621 ruraltya1641 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > collectively peasantry1551 1551 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 161 The gentlemen and servingmen..ought not..have too much as they have in France, where the peasantry is of no value. 1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. Cv Why this it is to trust to these base Rogues. This durty scum of rascall pesantrie. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 74 In France, and Italie, and some other Parts abroad, where in effect all is Noblesse, or Pesantrie. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 191 To be ranked among the Peasantry and the Ignoble. 1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa i. iii. 11 I found..gallant Spirits, in the rough Form of untaught Peasantry. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 55 A bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. 1817 W. Cobbett Taking Leave 6 The Labouring classes..are called, now-a-days, by these gentlemen, ‘the peasantry’. This is a new term as applied to Englishmen. 1868 Ladies' Repository Aug. 82/2 On all occasions requiring labor, the peasantry were forced to come here to the number of one thousand. 1936 tr. V. Lenin Sel. Wks. III. 183 The better the condition of the ‘commune’, the greater the prosperity of the peasantry in general, the more rapid is the process of differentiation among the peasantry into antagonistic classes of capitalist agriculture. 2004 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 85 In this country, we don't have distinctions between regions or a peasantry, thank God. 2. The condition of being a peasant; the legal position or rank of a peasant; the conduct or quality of a peasant; rusticity, vulgarity.In quot. 1762 with reference to the legal status of a German Bauer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > quality or condition peasantryc1592 peasanthood1830 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour villainyc1340 churlhood1382 rudenessc1405 boistousness1526 uplandishness1530 rusticity1531 coarseness1541 loutishnessa1556 grossness1563 boorishness1570 rusticality1572 clownishness1576 bouerie1577 roughness1581 clownery1589 swinishness1591 peasantryc1592 inurbanity1598 community1600 rusticalnessa1603 clownagea1637 wildness1639 vulgarness1642 unpolishedness1652 brutism1687 mismanners1697 unpoliteness1700 brutality1709 mechanicism1710 indelicacy1712 untameness1727 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 shag1785 piggishness1796 cubbishness1828 sylvanity1832 rusticness1838 plebeianness1840 swainishness1854 baboonery1857 yahooism1862 slanginess1865 bucolicism1879 vulgarianism1920 outbackery1961 yobbishness1969 ockerism1974 blokeishness1989 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > quality or condition of peasantryc1592 peasanthood1830 backwoodishness1855 peasantism1901 c1592 Faire Em sig. A3 This haplesse Yle: Whose sad inuasions..Haue made a number such as we subiect Their gentle neckes vnto their stubborne yoke, Of drudging labour and base pesantrie. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre ii. ix. §2. 74 Colours so borne, shew Bastardy, peasantry, or dishonor. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 332 Else, as a Gentleman, you could have never descended to such Peasantry of Language. 1722 Gentleman's Libr. (ed. 2) 361 These Nimrods..hector'd all the little and peaceable People into Peasantry. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 208 Whoever would appear at the Diet, must previously become a country-man, or assume the peasantry. 1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 227/1 Till, every dreg of peasantry purging off, I received into myself Very Gentility. 1890 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 258/2 The old nobility of Serbia, as well as of Bulgaria and Greece, were either exterminated by the Turks, or reduced to peasantry by being stripped of their lands. 1937 Observer 17 Oct. 19/2 I find it hard to believe that anybody, having read or seen ‘The Power of Darkness’, would not instantly swear..to remove from himself any traces of peasantry that he might possess. 1996 Independent on Sunday 23 June (Review Suppl.) 10/4 A return to an Arcadian peasantry has been a potent dream since the industrial revolution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Germany circle1675 amt1694 peasantry1762 gau1845 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 348 One hundred and twenty-one villageships [Ger. Dorfschaften] and peasantries [Ger. Bauerschaften]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1551 |
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