provincialism
Noun
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Noun
provincialism
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
- The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- 1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=bSJKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA79&dq=provincialism#PPA79,M1 p 79]:
- Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.
- 1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=bSJKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA79&dq=provincialism#PPA79,M1 p 79]:
- (linguistics) regionalism
- French: provincialisme
- German: Provinzialismus
- Italian: provincialismo
- Russian: провинциа́льность
- German: Provinzialismus
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