agrarianize

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verb

To imbue with the principles of agrarianism.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verbagrarianize (third-person singular simple present agrarianizes, present participle agrarianizing, simple past and past participle agrarianized)

present singular third person agrarianizes · participle present agrarianizing · participle past agrarianized · past agrarianized · alternative agrarianise

  1. transitiveTo imbue with the principles of agrarianism.
  2. transitiveTo distribute according to the principles of agrarianism.
  3. To convert to a more agricultural model.

    Man "has been industrialized to the limit. Now agrarianize him. Somewhat."

    2017, Anselm L. Strauss, Images of the American City
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    Their living conditions had begun to deteriorate, initially with the administrative attempts to agrarianize their land .The attmpts to transform the Ainu into farmers were, however, not successful.

    2013, Katarina Sjoberg, The Return of Ainu, page 122

    Traditionally, Hitler's has been seen as a determinedly atavistic ideology, with his admiration of healthy peasant life and his dislike of urban culture reflecting a desire to 're-agrarianize' Germany, to turn back the clock and put the industrial revolution into reverse, recreating Germany as a pre-industrial idyll.

    2014, Neil Gregor, How To Read Hitler

Origin

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