Examples of 'peasantry' in a sentence
Meaning of "peasantry"
Peasantry refers to a social class of agricultural workers or farmers who are considered to be of low social rank or status, often living in rural areas
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- Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
- Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
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The peasantry sought salvation through collectivization.
On the fate of the peasantry under capitalism.
The peasantry has a small economic movement.
Let the peasants handle the peasantry.
Urbanites and peasantry were dependent on each other.
You have achieved a rare vulgarity in peasantry.
The condition of the peasantry especially interested him.
The tax bore hard on the peasantry.
The peasantry remained thereafter a reservoir of reactionary attitudes.
He was held in awe by the local peasantry.
But the hopes of the peasantry were soon blasted.
This requirement disenfranchised most of the peasantry.
When the peasantry is hidden away.
We must win over the peasantry anew.
The peasantry revolted wielding pitchforks and clubs.
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The old army meant the peasantry.
The peasantry was permanently alienated from the regime.
The conduct of the peasantry is beyond all praise.
The peasantry has almost entirely disappeared as a class.
Look at the state of our peasantry.
Ensure the peasantry looks to you for employment.
He worked as a lawyer defending the rights of the peasantry.
The small peasantry have to follow the proletariat as it is.
Taxation was low for the peasantry and merchants.
Their condition is similar to that of middle class peasantry.
To the poor peasantry and the oppressed peoples.
This includes both commercial and peasantry farms.
The peasantry was deprived of independent initiative to a still greater extent.
Others are titles of nobility and peasantry.
A considerable segment of the peasantry abandoned the overburdened land.
Thus his clique also ignored the peasantry.
Build a town from your peasantry and rising population.
Footsoldiers were usually coerced from the local peasantry.
The peasantry was the most reliable ally of the proletariat.
But the healthy rump of the peasantry refused.
The peasantry fared no better.
The monkey rose from the peasantry background.
The peasantry is not stupid.
For the dignity of the peasantry.
This means that the peasantry is concentrated in small pockets.
Not even the bread of peasantry.
The peasantry called charity.
For and on behalf of the peasantry.
The peasantry identified strongly with him and protected him.
Under capitalist conditions the peasantry have no independent culture.
Do not tell me you have sunk to dabbling in the peasantry.
I see your disdain for the peasantry has its exceptions.
One major dilemma was how to deal with the peasantry.
He focused on the peasantry and dealt with the national issue.
Not among the peasantry.
