Definition of Provencialism
Pro*vin"cial*ism (?), n. [Cf. F.
provincialisme.] A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar
to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the
metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness;
illiberality. M. Arnold.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Word, locution characteristic of a zone, of a region.
- To be provincial; to have provincial tastes, mentality, manners. "This piece of prose is full of provincialisms".
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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