ruralistn.adj.

1715 J. Ozell tr. B. Le B. de Fontenelle Lett. of Gallantry xlviii. 110 I don't think when they have once seen you they'll venture to expose their Lovers to the Eyes of such a Ruralist [Fr. Provinciale] as you are.

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 326 The London season is over. Spite of the showery weather, the ruralists carry the day.

1889 J. G. Whittier Prose Wks. II. 248 The mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off.

1938 I. F. Marcosson Turbulent Years vi. 128 This is why I do everything to help agriculture and why I proclaim myself a confirmed ruralist.

1974 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. xx. 5/5 Australia has come up with a series of tours aimed at attracting..ruralists who like wheat fields and beef cattle.

2009 R. Pite in K. Wilson Compan. to T. Hardy ix. 134 Hardy's continuing belief that something..genuinely rural could be found and should be valued gave him common ground with the ruralists whose sentimentalities and pieties he disliked.

1739 H. Coventry Lett. 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.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 419 The Egyptian ruralists, without a creed, and without a philosophy.

1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 284/2 Four poor elms, from whose smoke-dyed barks, the theme of jesting ruralists, I picked my first lady-birds.

1892 Temple Bar June 176 His childish faith..and absence of all hypocrisy make him [sc. the Russian peasant] one of the most interesting ruralists in Europe.

1901 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 30 Oct. 1/5 There was much loud praying among the illiterate ruralists for deliverance.

1953 Rotarian July 14/3 Programs designed to promote better relations between towners and ruralists.

2009 Sunday Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. 56 Featuring..Roberto Alagna, as the uncomplicated ruralist Ruggero.

1800 Festival Mirth 62 Is not this the most ravishing and most ruralist place you ever see'd?]

1842 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 16 Oct. 311/1 Making the best of what all ruralist pedestrians like us must deem a bad change, we pursue our way by the sober old ‘path’, till it brings us to the very Green.

1928 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 33 739 ‘Ruralist’ propaganda, which, in order to keep the boy on the farm, advocated the absolute separation of rural and urban influences.

1988 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 20 Mar. 26 Joan Hassall..was a wood engraver of great skill in the ruralist tradition of Thomas Bewick.

2008 New Yorker 22 Sept. 92/2 He participated in the right-wing, ruralist Strapaese movement of the late nineteen-twenties.