Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is a native or inhabitant of a province.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of a province; a provincial.
- noun One who uses provincialisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lives in a province; a provincial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who lives in a
province ; aprovincial .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Winkleman is showing significant art, not formalist poetry or provincialist landscapes.
Hickey remarks vanish (revised) EAGEAGEAG 2009
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That was meant as a sarcastic rejoinder to dmfoiemjsof's provincialist tribalist racist bigotry.
"What we do is try to inject a brief moment of wonder that helps wake them up from that rushed stupor. That’s the true holiday spirit, isn’t it?" Ann Althouse 2007
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To quote: The provincialist politicians... need a Quebec ghetto as their lair.
reek 2006
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Harper probably thinks that because he is a provincialist - Province, Province Uber Alles - he will have an easy time.
Archive 2006-01-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant:
New Musical Express 1981
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Does anyone care about some sort of a national energy effort, rather than a series of provincialist approaches?
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(I would disagree, but my premises are different, ie., neither nationalist nor provincialist).
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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There never had been a nation as we all are very provincialist as recently someone asked an American about his visit to India and he replied I liket it but never met an Indian.
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In 2001 Harper and some of his closest advisors put their provincialist biases on full display when they advocated the raising of a "firewall" around Alberta to isolate Oil Patch and its agencies from the constitutional authority of the Canada?
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In 2001 Harper and some of his closest advisors put their provincialist biases on full display when they advocated the raising of a "firewall" around Alberta to isolate Oil Patch and its agencies from the constitutional authority of the Canada's national government.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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