1823 13 Dec. 382 It is scarcely possible to imagine a species of. revival more nationally silly or socially injurious, than that of a vast body of small-propertied people, who are to be abstracted from every idea of increasing it, except at the public expence.
1951 C. W. Mills i. iii. 34 The ideology suitable for a nation of small capitalists persists, as if that small-propertied world were still a going concern.
1999 (Nexis) 24 May a1 Robert Wood..was by then married and living the life of a small-propertied gentleman.