peasant proprietor

American  

[pez-uhnt pruh-prahy-i-ter] / ˈpɛz ənt prəˈpraɪ ɪ tər /

noun

1. a peasant who owns land, especially the land they till.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• peasant proprietorship
  noun

Etymology

Origin of peasant proprietor

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

The farmer mind fails to perceive how any Act of Parliament can prevent an owner or peasant proprietor from selling his entire interest in his holding.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

Such measures would merely have revived the free labourer, while their dream was to re-establish the peasant proprietor, or at least the occupant who held his land on a perfectly secure tenure from the State.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

My inn, recommended by an old Nuremberg friend, was owned and managed by a peasant proprietor, his wife, their elderly daughter, and two charming orphan grandchildren in their early teens.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

Unlike the peasant proprietor," says Lecky, "and also unlike the mediaeval serf, the cottier had no permanent interest in the soil, and no security for his future position.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan

The Reverend Patrick Brontë was one of the ten children of a peasant proprietor at Ahaderg in county Down.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)