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Definition of Parochialisms
1. parochialism [n] - See also: parochialism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parochialisms
Literary usage of Parochialisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1898)
"... stricken apparently by the obloquy which their affected gibes against the
poet's parochialisms had drawn ..."
2. Their Day in Court by Percival Pollard (1909)
"Yet, in 1908, Hamilton W. Mabie—one of the typical deans having in charge our
literary parochialisms—after admitting that the short-story is probably the ..."
3. The Preparation for Christianity in the Ancient World by Robert Mark Wenley (1898)
"... transform the duties of the chiefest from the parochialisms of aldermen and
bailies to questions of high state policy; infuse all with the incomparable ..."
4. Problems of Living by Jonathan Brierley (1903)
"... with immense emphasis for the Gospel as a fact in history and a practice of
living, will have nothing to do with our parochialisms of religious thought. ..."
5. Horace Bushnell, the Citizen by Edwin Doak Mead (1900)
"The danger from social parochialisms of many kinds is to-day greater; and Bushnell's
words upon this point are so serious and important that we quote the ..."
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