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Localism

noun
1.
A phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality.
2.
A partiality for some particular place.  Synonyms: provincialism, sectionalism.





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... perpetuation of slavery, there followed a reaction after the death of John Marshall in 1835, when the court abandoned to some extent the advanced position of nationalism of this great jurist and drifted toward the localism long since advocated by Judge Roane ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various


Words linked to "Localism" :   provincialism, non-standard speech, partisanship, partiality


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