Adjective : rural tranquillity. ,the rural population. ,rural economy. From Dictionary.com.
I suspect they are partly responsible for the ruralist strain you still find in my politics. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
I would love to get out there and do just that, but I'm a ruralist — not always by choice. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Harper appeared to align himself strongly with the conservative, ruralist Union Nationale which, under Duplessis, ruled Quebec for 15 years beginning in 1944. From Wordnik.com. [Harper appeals to Quebec nationalists] Reference
Ultimately pagan in its presuppositions, perennialism is used today to promote the victory of an anti-Catholic, secularist, rightist, racist, misogynist, ruralist movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Smear Reports] Reference
And here let us say that the mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
The lone fisherman of the Isaak Walton type had become, in the New World, the wood-walker, the flower-hunter, the bird-fancier, the berry-picker, and many another variety of the modern ruralist. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
Celebrities of every political hue have joined in the party, from Jeremy Clarkson, who complains that his birds peck him, to nouveau-ruralist Liz Hurley and battery-chicken rescuers Pam Ayres and Amanda Holden. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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