provinciality
Americannoun
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provincial character.
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provincial characteristic.
Her provincialities reflect a refreshing naturalness.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of provinciality
First recorded in 1775–85; provincial + -ity
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One chapter is devoted to the Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce, a Californian who believed that the state's very provinciality might be its salvation.
From Time Magazine Archive
With him, French painting shook off its provinciality and became a European affair, mirroring the power of its grand siecle, the age of Louis XIV.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was as though, by general consent, all American art had been sunk in earnest provinciality until the 1940s, when abstract expressionism unburdened itself upon the world stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ensor's career was not just provincial; it was provinciality itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Liudmilla, however, had saved herself from the pettiness and provinciality of this "unclean, impotent earth" by creating a new world for herself.
From The Created Legend by Cournos, John
Unlike Pissarro, he cannot claim Europe as a birthright: "Our native grace/is still a backward bending, out of fashion/in theatres and galleries; an island race/damned to the provincialities of passion."
From Time Magazine Archive
We have no concern, however with these provincialities just now, for we are in Philistia.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
The acrid criticism of Asinius Pollio, a purist by profession, on certain provincialities of his style, was an insignificant exception to the general chorus of praise.
From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
The narrow theological spirit, the moralism à tout propos, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers.
From Italian Hours by James, Henry
The English language was almost overwhelmed by the perpetual jargon of all the loud-tongued provincialities of France.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
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