agrarianism
[uh-grair-ee-uh-niz-uh m]
- a movement for the equal division of landed property and for the promotion of agricultural interests.
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Origin of agrarianism
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Fenianism and agrarianism, essentially different as they are, might be worked to the same end.
The political stroke having failed, agrarianism again occupied the ground.
But the most characteristic labor movement of the forties was a resurgence of the old Agrarianism of the twenties.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United StatesSelig Perlman
In connection with the above, it will do to say, that as monopolies increase and gain strength, agrarianism also is extending.
It would protect a country in which almost every voter was a landholder from any sudden frenzy of agrarianism!
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume VJames Russell Lowell