proletairen.

1796 tr. J. B. Duvoisin Exam. Princ. French Revol. 14 It requires..that there should be no Helotes, as at Sparta, nor the proletaires [Fr. Prolétaires], and those named at Rome capite censi.

1820 Edinb. Rev. Aug. 28 A Despot is thus the natural representative of the proletaires.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 222/1 The movement at Lyons was a Republican movement... It was not made by boys, or apprentices, or proletaires.

1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. xxii. 269 By the spread of education and increase of general well-being every proletaire was brought nearer to a Duke.

1909 Let. in Jrnl. Negro Hist. (1982) 67 55 The struggle..has driven hordes of European proletaires to West Africa, with the painful consequence of unseemly racial strife.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 22 Oct. 35 I was born by Notre-Dame. Controlled tenancies. But they're kicking the proletaires into the suburbs now.

1833 J. S. Mill Let. 2 Feb. in Wks. (1963) XII. 140 Those of the St. Simonians who retain their connection with the Pere Suprême and with each other, have made themselves prolètaires.

1876 T. H. Huxley in Sci. Mem. (1902) iv. 152 The plant is the ideal prolétaire of the living world, the worker who produces.

1889 W. Clarke in G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 64 Ferdinand Lassalle said: ‘Society consists of ninety-six proletaires and four capitalists. That is your State.’ But in old Lancashire there was neither capitalist nor proletaire.

1989 M. R. Buheiry Formation & Perception Mod. Arab World ii. 37 Such observations..influenced his [sc. Marquis de la Gervaisais'] formulation of apocalyptic visions of fire and destruction.., ending in the victory of the proletaires and semi-prolétaires.