unprovincial

We chose Monte Carlo partly because it was the nearest place, and partly because it has some of the qualities -- incurious, tolerant, unprovincial -- of a capital city.

Sacred and Profane Love Arnold Bennett 1899

Newcastle so noble and unprovincial an appearance; but the fine streets he had constructed -- finer than any others to be found in England at that period -- were still untenanted, and it was melancholy in walking along

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 1887

_ This is of course just as pure and unprovincial a word as

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

_ This is of course just as pure and unprovincial a word as

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

Richard Granger was just completing that great reconstruction of the centre of the town which gave Newcastle so noble and unprovincial an appearance; but the fine streets he had constructed ” finer than any others to be found in England at that period ” were still untenanted, and it was melancholy in walking along Clayton Street to see nine houses out of ten mere empty shells without doors or windows.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905