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单词 peasantry
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peasantryn.

Brit. /ˈpɛzntri/, U.S. /ˈpɛz(ə)ntri/
Forms: see peasant n. and adj. and -ry suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peasant n., -ry suffix.
Etymology: < peasant n. + -ry suffix. Compare Middle French païsanterie (1547 in sense ‘condition of being a peasant’; French paysannerie (1668 in sense 1)).In sense 3 after German Bauerschaft (late 13th cent. in Middle High German; 1353–74 in this sense). With quot. 1762 at sense 2 compare German †Bauerschaft in the sense ‘rights of the member of a peasant community’ (1571).
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.
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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.
3. In Germany: a small territorial division, a commune. Obsolete. rare.
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).
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