agrarianism

American  

[uh-grair-ee-uh-niz-uhm] / əˈgrɛər i əˌnɪz əm /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of agrarianism

First recorded in 1800–10; agrarian + -ism

Example Sentences

You also talk in “The Art of Loading Brush” about agrarianism being a feeling, or a kind of instinct, and I wonder—maybe this is a silly question—if we’re all born with that instinct.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 14, 2019

He urges people to dedicate themselves instead to local community — a sort of Wendell Berry agrarianism.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2018

Jefferson, in contrast, is depicted as a Virginia-centric slaveholder singing the praises of agrarianism.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2015

Jefferson’s Southern agrarianism was deeply suspicious of New York’s mercantile wealth.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2011

The desire of political revolution, apart from agrarianism, was not strong enough to rouse the peasantry to arms, though they had learned to hate England as the supposed source of their sufferings.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin