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rurality|rʊˈrælɪtɪ|
[f. rural a. + -ity, perh. after F. ruralité (med.L. ruralitas).]
1. Rural quality or character, rusticity; country life, manners, or scenery.
1730Bailey (folio), Rurality, Ruralness, Country-likeness, Clownishness. 1778[W. H. Marshall] Minutes Agric., Digest 1 A few years acquaintance with the World had convinced him, that Nature, Rurality, Contemplation and Happiness, are nearly allied. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 236 It has..an animation, an air of cleanness and rurality which seldom belong to a populous city. 1853Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 11 The full rurality of grass country, sprinkled with fallows and turnip-fields. 1883W. Besant All in Garden Fair i. ii, The rurality of the place, to one fresh from town, seems overdone.
2. With a and pl. A rural characteristic, feature, or topic; a rural object, locality, landscape, etc.
1823Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) II. xix. 171 The 12th of July dismisses me to my ruralities for four months. 1844R. P. Ward Chatsworth I. 17 The Regent's Park ruralities of Marienbad; the Primrose-hill prettiness of Kissingen. 1893Athenæum 9 Dec. 813/2 Spottiness and..slight opacity..have long beset his pleasant ruralities. |