provincialism

No developed country has anything close to America’s population of religious fundamentalists: believers in angels, demons, miracles and prophecies, all wrapped in a determined provincialism.

Like the other club members, Benny tends to rack up miles without going anywhere very far, a provincialism that is one of the most American things about them.

Bruce grew up with five siblings in a home tightly circumscribed by T.C.’s paltry salary and the dour provincialism of Simcoe, in the southwest corner of the province, not far from Lake Erie.

“It was a term that he associated with narrow-mindedness, with a certain provincialism,” Dr. Brunsman said.

The more outsiders mocked his Roman accent, dialect-abbreviated grammar and colorful vocabulary for its Roman provincialism, the more he became the city’s human coat of arms.