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peasantry

[ US /ˈpɛzəntɹi/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛzəntɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the class of peasants

How To Use peasantry In A Sentence

  • Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
  • In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
  • The remainder was the rural and generally poor peasantry. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
  • An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
  • The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
  • Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
  • After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
  • Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
  • Cumberland curs burst out from backs of cottages and barked like other curs, and the Cumberland peasantry stared after the dog-cart amazedly, as long as it was in sight, like the rest of their race. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
  • The crown took other measures to make the scales of justice less weighted against the peasantry.
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