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Definition of Peasants
1. peasant [n] - See also: peasant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peasants
Literary usage of Peasants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"For these allotments the peasants had to pay, as before, either by personal labor
... As long as these relations subsisted, the peasants were considered as ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Luther never approved of the violence of the peasants, although in the earlier
... Yet there was a case for the peasants. The movement started by Luther was ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"The serfdom of the Russian peasants, as sanctioned by the census revision of 1719
under Peter the Great, was placed on a firm basis by Elizabeth's ukases of ..."
4. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"He sup- ^J^'^ pressed the peasants of Gaul, who, under the appellation of Gaul.
... The peasants reigned without control; and two of their 16 The general ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The condition of the peasants, although greatly improved, is far from being
prosperous, and the agrarian question is one of the gravest with which Russian ..."
6. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"The peasants upon the appanage estates were in approximately the same position
as the crown peasants. Before 1861 many of the serfs were extremely poor, ..."
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