Provincialism

Definitions

1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
   countable, uncountable
2. A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
   countable, uncountable
3. Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner”

“Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect⟳; but no one nowadays would maintain⟳ that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.”

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