provinciality
Americannoun
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provincialities
plural
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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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This director has a real gift for rendering gloomy provinciality in subtle imagery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But the exhibition includes whole roomfuls of provinciality, grading down to junk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Numbing provinciality was the lot of artists in America 200 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile Laura knew what Selina thought of Fanny Schooling and her incurable provinciality.
From A London Life and Other Tales by Henry James
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 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 Henry James
We have no concern, however with these provincialities just now, for we are in Philistia.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
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
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 J. W. (John William) Mackail
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