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peasant proprietor
[ pez-uhnt pruh-prahy-i-ter ]
noun
- a peasant who owns land, especially the land they till.
Other Words From
- peas·ant pro·pri·e·tor·ship noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of peasant proprietor1
Example Sentences
It holds good in favour of peasant proprietorship to this extent—that the ruin of a peasant proprietor can only occur through his own fault or misfortune, and not through the caprice of a landlord.
This is a very high return for a small outlay; but it is completely beyond the means of any peasant proprietor.
The peasant proprietor soon glided hopelessly into debt.
Peas′antry, the body of peasants or tillers of the soil: rustics: labourers.—Peasant proprietor, a peasant who owns and works his own farm; Peasants' War, a popular insurrection in Germany, in 1525, stamped out with horrible cruelty.
His father was a landowner at Colle in the commune of Vespignano, described in a contemporary document as vir praeclarus, but by biographers both early and late as a poor peasant; probably therefore a peasant proprietor of no large possessions but of reputable stock and descent.
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