peasant proprietor

[pez-uhnt pruh-prahy-i-ter]

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• peasant proprietorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of peasant proprietor¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

It holds good in favour of peasant proprietorship to this extent—that the ruin of a peasant proprietor can only occur through his own fault or misfortune, and not through the caprice of a landlord.

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This is a very high return for a small outlay; but it is completely beyond the means of any peasant proprietor.

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The peasant proprietor soon glided hopelessly into debt.

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Peas′antry, the body of peasants or tillers of the soil: rustics: labourers.—Peasant proprietor, a peasant who owns and works his own farm; Peasants' War, a popular insurrection in Germany, in 1525, stamped out with horrible cruelty.

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His father was a landowner at Colle in the commune of Vespignano, described in a contemporary document as vir praeclarus, but by biographers both early and late as a poor peasant; probably therefore a peasant proprietor of no large possessions but of reputable stock and descent.

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