peasantry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
2. isim Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.

   “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.”

3. isim The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.

   “How much low pezantry would then be gleaned / From the true ſeede of honor? And how much honor, / Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times / To be new verniſh’d?”