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Provincial

adjective

Of or associated with a province.

Characteristic of the provinces or their people. "In that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial" , "Narrow provincial attitudes"

noun

(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order.

A country person. Synonyms: bucolic, peasant.

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"Provincial" Quotes from Famous Books

... boundaries of his own diocese and who exercised a certain control over all the bishops within his province.[136] One of the chief prerogatives of the archbishop was the right to summon the bishops of his province to meet in a provincial council. His court received appeals from the bishops' courts. Except, however, for the distinction of his title and the fact that he generally lived in an important city and often had vast political influence, the archbishop was not very much more powerful, as an officer ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... is how to organize an army in a country in which there is at the same time national and provincial feeling. Such a country is France, where there is no longer any necessity for uniting national and provincial feeling by mixing up the soldiers. In France, will the powerful motif of pride, which comes from the organization of units from ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... serves as appeals court for people's and provincial courts, but to date rarely overturns ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... the order of things, and no cause for blame, that, after this town passed from the provincial stage, there was so long a period when it had to be, as De Quincey said of Oxford Street, a stony-hearted mother to her bookmen and poets; that she had few posts for them and little of a market. Even her colleges had not the means, if they had the will, to utilize their talents ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... looking like a French general in his gold-embroidered uniform of office, and followed by the Mayor of the city, the Chief Military Officer, the Chief of Police, and all the officials of the provincial government. These take their places in silence to left and right of the plat form. Then the school organ suddenly rolls out the slow, solemn, beautiful national anthem; and all present chant those ancient syllables, made sacred by the ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

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