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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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
"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
Jefferson became the first American to transcend the cultural provinciality of his own land, moving with some ease between the New World and the Old.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reason: that magazine, with its "peculiar combination of sophistication and provinciality," provides the necessary "compact cultural group."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was only genius that saved them from the narrowest provinciality.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
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)
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 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
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