Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movement for equitable distribution of land and for agrarian reform.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principle or theory of an equal or uniform division of lands; more generally, any theory involving radical changes in the tenure of land, as the denial of the right of private property in it, and advocacy of its distribution and control by the government.
- noun The movement or agitation in favor of agrarian views, or for the establishment of more favorable conditions in the use of land; violence exercised in pursuit of this object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
social andpolitical philosophy that advocates anequitable distribution ofland .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sounds a lot like the National Revolution of Vichy France – the last major state to believe that prosperity lay in agrarianism.
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The term agrarianism derived partly from the ancient Roman agrarian law to redistribute property and Thomas Paine's 1797 work, Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly: Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man, By Creating in Every
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Furthermore, I am not one to try and sell the idea of agrarianism to others, I reckon you either see the benefits of it or you don't.
Paradosis 2008
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Contemporary charges of Loco Foco "agrarianism" attempted to reify this bond by publicly associating the LFP with Working Man Thomas Skidmore's destabilizing vision of a world without inheritance where the state, rather than the father, measured out family property. 23
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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I find other movements, such as agrarianism, as helpful to the cause of Christ.
Christian Agrarianism Gets Noticed at Chalcedon Herrick Kimball 2006
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American liberalism at this time thus identified itself with the agrarian tradition, departing from the traditional association of agrarianism with conservative thought.
Films in Fraught Times Stefan Kanfer 2011
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He is best known as an enthusiastic nationalist and as an advocate of business interests during the period of the Jacksonian agrarianism.
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It combined moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule program with electoral functions, was hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct parliamentary control.
Daily Life in the British Parliament: Understanding the Political Parties | Edwardian Promenade 2008
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Though he is quite comfortable quoting Heidegger, he is the antithesis of a Heideggerian - uninterested in medieval agrarianism and utterly unpossessed of any religious affectation about the nature of work.
enowning enowning 2009
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Though he is quite comfortable quoting Heidegger, he is the antithesis of a Heideggerian - uninterested in medieval agrarianism and utterly unpossessed of any religious affectation about the nature of work.
Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009
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