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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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of agrarianism1

First recorded in 1800–10; agrarian + -ism
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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