Peasantry vs Peasantly - What's the difference?
peasantry | peasantly |
(historical) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
As a noun peasantry
is (historical) impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.As an adjective peasantly is
(obsolete) like a peasant.peasantry
English
Noun
(peasantries)- 1920' ''They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American '''peasantry , and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned.'' — Sinclair Lewis, Main Street",
Chapter 3.
- 1885' ''Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired '''peasantry ; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.'' — George Eliot, ''Silas Marner ,
Chapter 1.