provincial
see also: Provincial
Etymology
Provincial
Adjective
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see also: Provincial
Etymology
From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis, equivalent to province + -ial.
Pronunciation Adjectiveprovincial
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- a provincial government
- a provincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC ↗:
- […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
- Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody:
- That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- a provincial synod
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
- French: provincial
- German: provinziell, provinzial
- Italian: provinciale
- Portuguese: provincial
- Russian: провинциа́льный
- Spanish: provincial
- Portuguese: interiorano, provinciano
- Russian: провинциа́льный
- Spanish: provinciano, paleto
provincial (plural provincials)
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. - 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700:
- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
- (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC ↗, page 65, lines 130–135:
- Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
- A country bumpkin.
Provincial
Adjective
provincial (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
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