Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who resides in a rural area.
- noun An advocate of rural life.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who leads a rural life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who leads a rural life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One that exhibits
characteristics orqualities ofrural life; one that exhibists or believes in ruralism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who lives in the country and has country ways
- noun an advocate of rural living
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would love to get out there and do just that, but I'm a ruralist — not always by choice.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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I would love to get out there and do just that, but I'm a ruralist — not always by choice.
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I suspect they are partly responsible for the ruralist strain you still find in my politics.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Ultimately pagan in its presuppositions, perennialism is used today to promote the victory of an anti-Catholic, secularist, rightist, racist, misogynist, ruralist movement.
The Smear Reports 2007
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It has transformed pro-urban, non-ruralist calls for Catholic Social criticism—like my own-- into back-to-the-land Distributist arguments which bear no relation to them, and all Distributist arguments into neo-Communo-Nazi propaganda five minutes away from overturning the foundations of Holy Church.
The Smear Reports 2007
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Harper appeared to align himself strongly with the conservative, ruralist Union Nationale which, under Duplessis, ruled Quebec for 15 years beginning in 1944.
Harper appeals to Quebec nationalists Ed Hollett 2007
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The lone fisherman of the Isaak Walton type had become, in the New World, the wood-walker, the flower-hunter, the bird-fancier, the berry-picker, and many another variety of the modern ruralist.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902
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He was a type of the southern ruralist, broad, flapping straw hat, home-woven shirt, cottonade trousers, one suspender.
Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read 1895
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The lone fisherman of the Isaak Walton type had become, in the New World, the wood-walker, the flower-hunter, the bird-fancier, the berry-picker, and many another variety of the modern ruralist.
Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892
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And here let us say that the mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off.
Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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