Peasantry

Quick meaning: Peasantry is a noun meaning Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.

Meaning

Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.

More Meanings

1. The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.
2. (historical) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.

Example Sentences

How much low pezantry would then be gleaned / From the true ſeede of honor? And how much honor, / Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times / To be new verniſh’d?

Whoever would appear at the Diet, muſt previouſly become a country-man, or aſſume the peaſantry, and alſo ſue for it with the laudable Land-ſtates and obtain it at the Land-diet.

Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.

For certainly Sir I am ſo charitable to believe it was your Paſſion that impoſed upon your Underſtanding; elſe as a Gentleman you could have never deſcended to ſuch peaſantry of Language, eſpecially againſt ſuch a Perſon, to whom (had he never been your Prince) no Law enjoyns (whatſoever his Offences were) the puniſhment of Ribaldry.

Word Forms

• peasantries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peasant, campesino, farming, farmers, serfs, husbandmen.

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