Ruricolous vs Ruricolist - What's the difference?
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(rare, obsolete) A country dweller.
* 1841 , Anonymous, The Life and Times of Dick Whittington: An Historical Romance [http://books.google.com/books?id=kAYoAAAAMAAJ], page 54:
* a''1860, apparently James Hutchinson, advertisement in ''Dublin News'', quoted in Charles C. Bombaugh, ''Gleanings from the harvest-fields of literature, science and art : a melange of excerpta, curious, humorous, and instructive , T. N. Kurtz (1860), page 148,
* 1884, Arthur F. Leach, "Local Government", in National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain), Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , John W. Parker (1885), page 110,
Ruricolous is a related term of ruricolist.
ruricolous
Not English
Ruricolous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.ruricolist
English
Noun
(en noun)- His appearance did not bespeak the ruricolist , and Dick, who at once detected this, set him down for a London burgess.
- TO BE LET,
- To an Oppidan, a Ruricolist , or a Cosmpolitan, and may be entered upon immediately:
- The House in Stone Row, lately possessed by Capt. Siree.
- But the agricultural laborer and the unagricultural ruricolist can no longer be ignored.