agrarianism

[uh-grair-ee-uh-niz-uh m]

noun

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

Origin of agrarianism

First recorded in 1800–10; agrarian + -ism

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Historical Examples of agrarianism

Fenianism and agrarianism, essentially different as they are, might be worked to the same end.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 7
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The political stroke having failed, agrarianism again occupied the ground.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 7
Various
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 States
Selig Perlman
In connection with the above, it will do to say, that as monopolies increase and gain strength, agrarianism also is extending.
The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884
Various
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 V
James Russell Lowell