单词 | parochialism |
释义 | parochialismn. 1. Parochial character or tendency; esp. confinement of one's interests to the local sphere; lack of global perspective; narrowness of view; petty provincialism. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun] insularity1755 provinciality1769 localism1798 provincialism1819 parish pump1840 parochialism1847 vestrydom1860 vestryism1861 Podsnappery1864 parochialness1866 vestryhood1871 insularism1880 peninsularity1882 parochiality1887 parish pumpery1902 localitis1943 bourgeois-mindedness1955 1847 Fraser's Mag. 36 369 The narrow and jealous spirit of parochialism. 1881 Athenæum 30 July 141/2 A natural impatience of the parochialism of the petty Greek state. 1894 Times 7 Mar. 3/3 Able to..reconcile the conflicting claims of parochialism and nationalism. 1915 J. K. O'Connor Afrikander Rebellion 116 The spirit of parochialism must be deleted, and in its place must grow a united South African spirit. 1984 A. N. Wilson Hilaire Belloc i. i. 20 The parochialism, the narrowness of outlook, the insular snobbery..always repelled him. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 16 July 20/3 Plans for the waterfront are inappropriately modest because of the convergent pressures of parochialism and NIMBYism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > parish priest > jurisdiction of or parish > absorption in parochialisma1884 a1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) ii. 91 They took pains with their sermons—were, in short, steeped in parochialism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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