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ruralize .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
ruralize .
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Examples
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Ventnor; whither I could not accompany him, for plenty of good reasons: first because my chaos is not settled yet - and still more since I find that "the X -- s" are going to ruralise with him for a month on their own suggestion.
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And he immediately had the unpolitical sense again that there was nothing so pleasant as the way the quiet bachelor house had its best rooms on the big garden, which seemed to advance into them through their wide windows and ruralise their dulness.
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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Cumberland-gardens, on the opposite side, was, in former times, in great vogue; here the cits used to rusticate on a summer's evening, coming up the water in shoals to show their dexterity in rowing, and daring the dangers of the watery element to _blow a cloud_ in the fresh air, and ruralise upon the 'margin of old father Thames.'
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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He says very prettily, "What are town gardens and shrubberies in squares, but an attempt to ruralise the city?
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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