Crossword clues for provincialism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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. Arnold.
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 or usage or expression" is from 1770.\n\nPROVINCIALISM consists in:\n
An ignorance of the manners, customs and nature of people living outside one's own village, parish, or nation.\n
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A desire to coerce others into uniformity.\n
[Ezra Pound, "Provincialism the Enemy," 1917]
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.
WordNet
n. a lack of sophistication
a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism, localism]
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.