parochialityn.
/pəˌrəʊkɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /pəˌroʊkiˈælədi/ 1. † b. A parochial matter; an affair of the parish. Obsolete. rare.
a. The quality or state of relating to a parish. rare.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > parish priest > jurisdiction of or parish > state of being
parochiality1769
1769 J. Marriott Rights & Privileges Both Univ. 32 [This] would be for the justices to take upon themselves in effect to determine the parochiality of colleges.
1889 Church Times 28 June 587/2 A rigid parochiality is a thing of the past.
1989 Church Times 16 June 24/3 Our parish may be the world, but our parochiality refuses to be boundless.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > parish priest > jurisdiction of or parish > parish affairs
parochialitya1871
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 237 Neighbour Chalmers, great in parochialities, did his best.
2. figurative. Parochialism; confinement of one's interests to the local sphere; narrowness of view; lack of global perspective. Also: an instance of this.
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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
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun] > affairs of
parish pump1840
parochiality1887
1887 Athenæum 25 June 829/2 Her limited knowledge of real life, her intense strain of ‘parochiality’,..form a rather depressing combination.
1892 C. Rhodes in Pall Mall Gaz. 25 June 3/2 Home Rule..will lessen that absorption in trivialities and parochialities.
1965 Internat. Affairs 41 56 India is recognising the parochiality of her interests—and implicitly rejecting Nehru's horizon-searching.
1988 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 39 480 Marx's grand prophecy of life and history coming under full control of the human species once it is freed from the presently debilitating parochialities.
2002 Futures (Nexis) Feb. Transcience seeks to escape the parochiality and reductionism of a particular discipline by throwing an umbrella of concepts over the specific sciences.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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