Definition of "ruralist" []

• One who resides in a rural area. (noun)
• An advocate of rural life. (noun)

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• "I would love to get out there and do just that, but I'm a ruralist — not always by choice."
• "I suspect they are partly responsible for the ruralist strain you still find in my politics."
• "Ultimately pagan in its presuppositions, perennialism is used today to promote the victory of an anti-Catholic, secularist, rightist, racist, misogynist, ruralist movement."