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peasantly

peasantly adjective: like a peasant.

Adjective

peasantly (comparative more peasantly, superlative most peasantly)

  1. Like a peasant.
    • But ere I could enter three leaves into the Pamflet , (for I deferr the peasantly – rudenes , which by the Licencers leav , I met with afterwards1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC
    • “Reckoning!” exclaimed Lord Dalgarno in the same tone as a rustique before, “perish the peasantly phrase! […]”1846, Sir Walter Scott, Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig), The Fortunes of Nigel, page 179

Examples of peasantly in a sentence

  • On the other hand, Ceribašić shows the persistence of “ancient”, “domestic” and “peasantly” as potential bearers of national identity.2003, Sanimir Resic, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, The Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe, page 160:
  • That sounds nice, if rather old Russian and peasantly.2011, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World:

Forms of peasantly

comparativemore peasantly
superlativemost peasantly

Origin of peasantly

From peasant + -ly.

Questions about peasantly

What does peasantly mean?
Peasantly means like a peasant.
How do you use peasantly in a sentence?
On the other hand, Ceribašić shows the persistence of “ancient”, “domestic” and “peasantly” as potential bearers of national identity.
What part of speech is peasantly?
Peasantly is an adjective.

Words near peasantly in the dictionary

  1. peasantized
  2. peasantizes
  3. peasantizing
  4. peasantless
  5. peasantlike
  6. peasantly
  7. peasantness
  8. peasantries
  9. peasantry
  10. peasants
  11. peasantship

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