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proletary, a. and n.|ˈprəʊl-, ˈprɒlɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. prōlētāri-us a proletaire.]
A. adj. = proletarian a.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 138 He should gaine a number of proletairie subjects to multiplie and beget issue. 1656J. Harrington Oceana Wks. (1700) 184 The sixth [class] being Proletary, that is..such as thro their poverty contributed nothing to the Commonwealth but Children. 1854J. Martineau Prospective Rev. Ess. 1891 II. 313 The increase of a proletary class. 1884Lowell Democr. (1887) 7 The change from an agricultural to a proletary population.
B. n. = proletarian n.
Used in 16th and early 17th c. Reintroduced in 19th as substitute for proletaire.
1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xix. 37 The Assyrians and Babilonians boughte their wiues.., but after vsed mariages, regarding therewith their Prolataries, as the Spartanes didde them that begatte their men children. 1610Healey tr. Vives' St. Aug. Citie of God 125 A Proletary or Brood-man..reserued onely to beget children. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1676) 19/2 Of 15000 proletaries slain in a battel, scarce fifteen are recorded in history.
1865Sala Amer. in War II. 102 The proletaries—this word, in a military sense, is not mine, but Burton's, of the ‘Anatomy’—whom Columbia has summoned or forced beneath her star-spangled standard. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ix. 171 The bitterness which capitalists and employers often feel to be a reasonable mood towards obstructive proletaries. 1894Athenæum 22 Sept. 381/3 [Her Socialist husband] introduces fierce proletaries into her drawing-room. |