ruralismn.

1835 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 155/1 He..may be supposed in his calculations of rent and ruralism to regard the astronomer's allotment and nomenclature of the mountains and valleys of the moon.

1879 M. W. Hungerford Airy Fairy Lilian II. 208 Addicted to City pursuits and holding country life and ruralism generally in abhorrence.

1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. iii. 51 The agricultural world as it is—no stage ruralism, but the bare fact.

1909 A. Morrison Green Ginger 151 The little house had once been one of a row of country cottages, and the row even now carried some vague air of blighted ruralism.

1967 Times 29 Nov. 1/4 Breaking suddenly from the deep ruralism of the Lake District into the coastal strip of factories, dock installations and atomic energy plants.

1997 National Geographic Traveler July 75/2 The narrow two-lane curved back and forth past archetypal images of midwestern ruralism.

1854 Notes & Queries 22 July 61/1 A familiar ruralism, perhaps peculiar to Norfolk, where we have a condemnatory imprecation used in cases of doubt.

1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas vi. 385 A Yankee, who had lived so long in the Slave States that he had added to his original ruralisms a very complete collection of Southernisms.

1912 Times 3 Sept. 5/5 ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm’... It is a quaint medley of American ruralisms and sentimentalisms.

1945 D. Hinshaw Man from Kansas iii. i. 180 He still spoke to his own people in their colloquial language, still used slang or ruralisms without shame or apology.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Aug. d4/1 And there are plenty of ruralisms, like the odd pairing of a house displaying a Confederate flag sitting next to a small organic farm.