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provincialism|prəʊˈvɪnʃəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. provincial a. + -ism. So mod.F. provincialisme.]
1. Politics. Attachment to one's own province, its institutions, interests, etc., before those of the nation or state of which it is a part; provincial patriotism; desire for the autonomy of the province or provinces rather than national unity.
1820Hist. in Ann. Reg. i. 245/2 The prevalence of a spirit of provincialism—and the factions into which the capital was split. 1860Motley Netherl. (1867) III. 27 The inherent view of the Netherland polity was already a tendency to decentralisation and provincialism. 1873Spectator 23 Aug. 1061/1 The Welsh themselves admit that the meeting tends to maintain their provincialism, their separateness, and their pride of pedigree. 1902Daily Chron. 26 June 4/3 The key⁓note of Spanish life, both in town and country, is provincialism. His pueblo and his province are infinitely more to a Spaniard than his mother country.
2. a. Provincial character or peculiarity; the manner, fashion, mode of thought, etc., which characterize a particular province, or ‘the provinces’ generally, as distinct from that which is (or is held to be) national, or which is the fashion of the capital; hence, narrowness of view, thought, or interests, roughness of speech or manners as distinct from the polish of the court or capital.
1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 296 There is a provincialism of mind as well as of accent—a nationality of counties. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 491 It might be said that there was narrowness and provincialism in this. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 204 Perhaps the narrowest provincialism is that of Self. 1872― Dante Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 182 Dante was..incapable of intellectual provincialism. 1902Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 2/2 This idea was fostered by the London Unionist Press, but that Press was afflicted with a sort of metropolitan provincialism.
b. with a and pl. A peculiarity confined to a certain area; a local peculiarity or variety.
1845Ford Handbk. Spain 127 Ecclesiastical architecture has its provincialisms like dialects. 1848Rickman's Goth. Archit. (ed. 5) p. xxxvii, Windows of this character are common in the northern part of Oxfordshire, and may be considered as a provincialism.
3. esp. The manner of speech characteristic of a particular province; with pl., A local word, phrase, or peculiarity of pronunciation which is not part of the standard language of a country.
1770Monthly Rev. XLII. 180 His language..is, moreover, frequently debased with certain provincialisms. 1793Marsh Michaelis' New Test. I. iv. §13. 176 Inscriptions..of singular service..in explaining the provincialisms and idiotisms. 1798Southey in Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 221 Perhaps you will find many of the expressions provincialisms, which are familiar to my ears. 1851Gallenga Italy I. iii. ii. 305 The style was thought to be harsh and uncouth; the language full of Lombard provincialism. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 28 Buchanan, Bellenden, and Johnston had their provincialisms and peculiarities, as Livy the Paduan, and Sallust the Sabine had.
4. Ecol. The development of biogeographical provinces. Cf. province 6 a.
1969Spec. Papers Geol. Soc. Amer. No. 119. 1 Provincialism increased by the addition of the Malvinokaffric Province. 1975Nature 22 May 353/2 Why should the early Devonian faunas exhibit more provincialism, for instance, than those of the late Silurian. |