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Provincialism   /prəvˈɪntʃəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Provincialism

noun
1.
A lack of sophistication.
2.
A partiality for some particular place.  Synonyms: localism, sectionalism.





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"Provincialism" Quotes from Famous Books



... the knowledge of another's success. Margaret Edes was inwardly writhing. To think that Annie Eustace, little Annie Eustace, who had worshipped at her own shrine, whom she had regarded with a lazy, scarcely concealed contempt, for her incredible lack of wordly knowledge, her provincialism, her ill-fitting attire, should have achieved a triumph which she herself could never achieve. A cold hatred of the girl swept over the woman. She forced her lips into a smile, ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


Words linked to "Provincialism" :   narrowness, localism, partiality, partisanship, narrow-mindedness


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