agrarianism

[ uh-grair-ee-uh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. a movement for the equal division of landed property and for the promotion of agricultural interests.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agrarianism¹

First recorded in 1800–10; agrarian + -ism

Example Sentences

Then, too, the opposition parties and press seized upon agrarianism and Owen's alleged atheism to brand the whole labor movement.

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But the most characteristic labor movement of the forties was a resurgence of the old Agrarianism of the twenties.

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It is noteworthy that of all social reform movements of the forties Agrarianism alone was not initiated by the intellectuals.

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Thus the program of the new agrarianism: free homesteads, homestead exemption, and land limitation.

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The old contest between agrarianism and capitalism now took on a new vigor.

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