Meaning of provinciality | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being provincial.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Her father, who was sitting at the piano, his long fingers raised as though about to play⟳, whirled about and cut⟳ in quickly with an unintelligible answer⟳, "Your Aunt Victoria refers to non-existent phenomena, my dear, in order⟳ to bring⟳ home to us the uncouth provinciality in which we live⟳."”

“Our literary gentleman, at all events, found his task very engaging, though as a cataloguer he was much perplexed by the extraordinary informality, in one respect⟳, of formal public papers, a curious provinciality, as he could but take⟳ it to be, of municipalities.”

CEFR level