peasant proprietor
noun
a peasant who owns land, especially the land they till.
peasant proprietorship
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a word derived from
peasant proprietor.
Example Sentences
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The Program is founded on a reaffirmation of peasant proprietorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such criticism is revolutionary enough, though when he comes to speak of actual changes, he had little more to propose than a system of peasant proprietorship.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
He abolished, in 1833, the old Turkish system of land-tenure and introduced that peasant proprietorship which causes the Serbs, down to this day, to go into battle in defence of their own lands.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
Like any parasitic growth, slavery and forced labor destroyed the fabric of a largely self-contained economy based on peasant proprietorship.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
The extortions of the corn-market, the formation of large estates, the frequency of mortgages, all show that the small peasant proprietorship was unable to hold its own against the accumulations of wealth.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
