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Definition of Provincialism
1. Noun. A lack of sophistication.
2. Noun. A partiality for some particular place.
Definition of Provincialism
1. n. A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
Definition of Provincialism
1. Noun. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. ¹
2. Noun. (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Provincialism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provincialism
Literary usage of Provincialism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crumbling Idols: Twelve Essays on Art, Dealing Chiefly with Literature by Hamlin Garland (1894)
"By provincialism I mean dependence upon a mother country for models of art production.
... The " provincialism " which the conservative deplores is not ..."
2. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"The States, not Schools of Provincialism and Estrangement.—The Development of
America, a North and South, not Hostile States.—Peculiar Ideas of Yankee ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Wholesome provincialism was growing all about me, as the crops were growing under
the sun and the rains of June. IV THE IMPORTANCE OF VINCIAL BEING PROAS ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Thus, then, I went to do my little bit of prophesying. But I found no Nineveh
against which to prophesy. Wholesome provincialism was growing all about me, ..."
5. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"... "obedient " provinces—Prosperity of the commonwealth—Its internal government—Tendency
to provincialism—Quibbles of the English members of the council, ..."
6. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... a lawyer of some prominence, asked the same question in the same words when
we were formally introduced. Provincialism What, is a "Western" man? ..."
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