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provinciality|prəʊvɪnʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[f. provincial a. + -ity.]
1. a. The quality or condition of being provincial; the pettiness or narrowness of interests, feeling, or view that is apt to be associated with this; an example of this, a provincial trait.
1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 243 This Scotch spirit, this provinciality of public zeal, pervades the pamphlet before us. 1864M. Arnold Ess. in Crit. ii. (1875) 70 In the bulk of the intellectual work of a nation which has no centre, no intellectual metropolis..there is observable a note of provinciality. Now to get rid of provinciality is a certain stage of culture. 1869― Cult. & An. Pref., In what we call provinciality they [the Nonconformists] abound, but in what we may call totality they fall short. 1886Pall Mall G. 28 Aug. 1/1 The petty personalities, the mean ambitions, and narrow provincialities of too many of his opponents.
b. spec. in reference to speech or writing.
1782T. Warton Enq. Poems Rowley 46 That circumstance must have added greatly to the provinciality, and consequently to the unintelligibility, of the poem. 1798A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 150 A hardness in sounding the consonants, which mark the provinciality of Derbyshire and Lancashire. 1805Monthly Mag. XX. 30 The provinciality of their accent..greatly offends the English ear.
2. Ecol. The restriction of the distribution of a plant or animal community to a particular province or group of provinces. Cf. province 6 a.
1969Spec. Papers Geol. Soc. Amer. No. 119. 3 The waxing and waning of provinciality displayed by Lower Devonian invertebrate faunas can be viewed in another way. 1971J. G. Johnson in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCLXX. 257 Degrees of faunal resemblance..can be measured by a Provinciality Index (PI) consisting of a weighted ratio of common and endemic genera. 1976Nature 24 June 695/1 It is noteworthy that an abrupt increase in phyletic rate commonly coincides initially with the brief upsurge in cladogenetic rate accompanying major provinciality increase. |