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单词 rurality
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ruralityn.

Brit. /rʊˈralᵻti/, U.S. /ˌrʊˈrælədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: rural adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < rural adj. + -ity suffix, perhaps after French ruralité (late 14th cent. in Middle French) or Italian ruralità (1611 in Florio (see quot. 1611 at sense 1) in isolated early use). Compare post-classical Latin ruralitas rusticity, ignorance (13th cent. in a British source; 1363 in a French source). Compare ruralness n. and also ruralty n.
1. The quality, state, or fact of being rural; ruralness.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > quality
rusticity1585
rurality1611
rustication1732
pastorality1821
ruralism1835
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ruralità, rurality, rusticality.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) Rurality, Country Likeness, Clownishness.
1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks II. iv. xxxviii. 411 That Variety, as well as Rurality of Trees..must needs make a great Addition to the Nobleness of this Design.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 1 A few years acquaintance with the World had convinced him, that Nature, Rurality, Contemplation and Happiness, are nearly allied.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 236 It has..an animation, an air of cleanness and rurality which seldom belong to a populous city.
1883 W. Besant All in Garden Fair i. ii The rurality of the place, to one fresh from town, seems overdone.
1936 Times 30 July 12/1 The tiny store in the charming little village—we all realize the reason for its survival. It is part and parcel of the picture, its limitations inseparable from its rurality.
1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 137 I am merely myself..standing in my sweated clothes in the rear of a dividing porch of a certain house, foundered as a stone in sea in deepest Alabamian rurality.
1999 Community Care 6 May 4/4 The department had given proper attention to rurality in the planning and development of services.
2. Something characteristic or suggestive of the country; a rural object, feature, or area. Chiefly in plural.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > feature
rusticity1662
rurality?1775
?1775 J. Smeeton Minutiæ 3 These objects compose a scene of ruralities.
1822 W. Scott Let. Apr. (1934) VII. 122 The 12th of July dismisses me to my ruralities for four months.
1844 R. P. Ward Chatsworth I. 17 The Regent's Park ruralities of Marienbad; the Primrose-hill prettiness of Kissingen.
1893 Athenæum 9 Dec. 813/2 Spottiness and..slight opacity..have long beset his pleasant ruralities.
1921 Living Age 22 Jan. 235/1 One would have thought that an American poet would have been delighted and satisfied with so many ruralities sweeping to the very skirts of London.
1969 D. Wright Deafness i. vi. 70 Here we would look for and sometimes find the nests of lapwings, for Northampton still has, or had, its ruralities.
2001 M. K. Bhatnagar Encycl. Lit. in Eng. VII. cliv. 1929 The scenery..has changed..to the beautiful meadow and orchard, thoroughly English ruralities of The Gardener s Daughter and The Brook.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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