ruralize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to make rural in character, appearance, etc
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(intr) to go into the country to live
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Etymology
Origin of ruralize
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There was too much society; one could not ruralize enough.
From The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II by Wilkins, W. H.
If thee should come this way next summer, to ruralize, thee might behold our swollen Schuylkill, and say, Enough!
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 by Various
You will take a cottage for me in some beautiful spot in the country, and there I shall ruralize for six months; perhaps that may work a change.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
Mr. C. S. Harrison: Mr. Chairman, I think the slogan of this society should be "Urbanize the country and ruralize the town."
"Come along, we shall easily find a nice cottage to-morrow, or get into some farm-house, and ruralize for a month or two delightfully."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
Had he been better informed, it is doubtful whether, improvident and enamored as he was, he would have ruralized and practicalized Romeo in the lane of Burleigh Grange.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
The books should not be completely ruralized; nor should there be two sets of books, one for the country and one for the city.
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph
Then there is his Excellency the "royal Chamberlain"—a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.
From Roughing It, Part 7. by Twain, Mark
There is no more reason why textbooks should carry the urban message, than that they should be dominantly ruralizing.
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph
When we first arrived, which was in September, this huge city was, comparatively speaking, a desert; for all the fashionables were out ruralizing.
From The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Aguilar, Grace
But that ruralizing must have been fearful for you, poverina!
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
The ruralizing party were to dine amid the ruins of Berry Pomeroy, and were not expected home till dusk, to a substantial tea.
From The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Aguilar, Grace
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