ruralizationn.
/ˌrʊərəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌrʊərl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrʊrələˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌrʊrəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ΚΠ
1832 R. Chambers & W. Chambers Gazetteer Scotl. I. 118/1 Bute has for many years been the place of summer resort, for sea-bathing and ruralization to the fashionable mercantile gentry of the west.
1850 Daily Ohio Statesman 8 Apr. We don't know whether the Nose of the Journal has returned from his ruralization yet.
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1851 H. B. Hall West of Eng. & Exhib. iii. 24 That my friend Clifford might be plunged as it were at once from civilization into ruralization.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 198 Turnham Green and Kew were places where citizens took their wives to enjoy the perfection of ruralisation.
3. The process of making or becoming rural in character or appearance. Cf. urbanization n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town and country > [noun] > transference to the country
return to nature1801
ruralization1892
1892 Standard 10 June 5/2 This ruralisation of the great Metropolitan schools.
1918 Indian Jrnl. Econ. 1 285 He produces data..to establish his contention of progressive ruralization in all the provinces of India.
1970 J. Cotler in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xii. 436 The confluence of urban ruralization and of rural urbanization.
1991 A. Hourani Hist. Arab Peoples v. xxvi. 452 There had been an urbanization of the migrants, but there was also a ruralization of the cities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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