provincialities
- plural of provinciality.
Example Sentences
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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
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)
We have no concern, however with these provincialities just now, for we are in Philistia.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
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
