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A partiality for some particular place
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provincialism
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Word definitions for provincialism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provincialism \Pro*vin"cial*ism\, n. [Cf. F. provincialisme.] 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. --M. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a lack of sophistication a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism , localism ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. 2 (context linguistics English) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820 in the political sense, "local attachment as opposed to national unity," from provincial + -ism . Meaning "manners or modes of a certain province or of provinces generally" (as opposed to the big city or capital) is from 1836. Sense of "a local word ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In a science which is supposed to be international, such provincialism is inexcusable. ▪ In part it is sheer provincialism . ▪ It helps people move across the barriers of localism, parochialism, or provincialism that divide them. ...
Usage examples of provincialism.
And if I myself cannot be he, still I can be his John the Baptist, testifying of him, happy and enthusiastic in my solitude, in this desert of caddishness and provincialism.
What are the qualities common to all the masterpieces of literature, or, let us say, to those that have endured in spite of imperfections and local provincialisms?
We are not now considering the matter of the agreeableness of one society or another, whether life is on the whole pleasanter in certain conditions at the North or at the South, whether there is not a charm sometimes in isolation and even in provincialism.
She might disguise it as hatred of their thoughtlessness, stupidity, callowness, utter provincialism.
He was an exceptionally handsome young man, but he dressed carelessly, for comfort rather than style, and his Scottish provincialisms in speech and conduct were a cause for derision, especially by the time he reached college.
I'm trying to think about and feel and detect for myself the provincialisms and the stylizations in contemporary culture.