provincialism
Example Sentences
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You can have a provincialism growing up in a poor place.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2022
It is the opposite of provincialism: To my mind, it points to a theater town scaling new heights of worldly self-confidence.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2021
Perhaps we are biased by a bit of provincialism when it comes to Cleary, because she holds a special place in the Northwest.
From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2021
He shows how Americans with an antipathy for war now found themselves castigated as "isolationists," a derogatory term created to suggest provincialism or selfishness.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
But the net result has been to bind the Earth together, to decrease provincialism, to unify the human species and to advance powerfully our knowledge of our planet and ourselves.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
