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
Example Sentences
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This director has a real gift for rendering gloomy provinciality in subtle imagery.
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
"The real America seemed to me 'out there,' too heterogeneous and electrified by now to pose much threat of the provinciality that people used to come to New York to escape," Updike later wrote.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is the classic example of the artist pulling himself up by the bootstraps, rising by grit and talent above the dilemmas of provinciality.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the physiognomy of the three there is similitude enough to declare them of one nation, though dissimilarity sufficient to prove a distinct provinciality both in countenance and character.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
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
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
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
We have no concern, however with these provincialities just now, for we are in Philistia.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
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