A member of a zemstvo or a supporter of the zemstvos, esp. one involved in agitating for political and constitutional reform.
Stressed as ˈzemstvoist.
1904
The reactionists and bureaucrats profess to see no danger in the present situation, declaring their belief that the agitation provoked by the zemstvoists will soon sink out of sight.
Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 24 November 1/4
1907
The Zemstvoists who played a leading part in the reform movement, and who then controlled the Zemstvos..have almost everywhere been swept out of office.
Times 17 September 6/2
2012
The initial party program..incorporated..resolutions approved by zemstvoists in September.
A. K. Wise in A. K. Wise et al., Cultural Identity & Civil Soc. in Russia & Eastern Europe Introduction 15
zemstvoist typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zemstvoist is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zemstvoist, n., 1900–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1900
0.002
1910
0.0016
1920
0.0014
1930
0.0012
1940
0.0005
1950
0.0003
1960
0.0002
1970
0.0002
1980
0.0003
1990
0.0003
2000
0.0004
2010
0.0002
Originally published as part of the entry for zemstvo, n.