provincialism

Example Sentences

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Their disdain for the offices of governor, senator, and president comes not from any sense of Chicago provincialism—although all Daleys are accomplished provincialists.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2011

He thought that the only remedy for the state of things which he had described was to deprive the province of its constitution, as the provincialists termed their charter.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles

All being lost in the east, Bolivar next proceeded to Carthagena, and offered his services to New Granada, then agitated by discordant parties of provincialists, centralists, metropolists, federalists, royalists, and independents.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 by Various

The streets were daily traversed by new crowds of provincialists, driven or terrified from their dwellings.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)