Anglo- agrarianism, blinders, closed mind, hideboundness, insularism, linguistic island, meanness, nearsightedness, petty mind, rusticity, straitlacedness, unsophisticatedness
Definitionn. a lack of sophistication
Last update: August 14, 2015
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One should not hesitate to reveal his provincialism. [Please select]
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The Gospel and the First Epistle are written in correct and flowing Greek, and there is not a barbarism, a solecism, or a provincialism in them; whereas the Greek of the Apocalypse is inaccurate, disfigured by unusual or foreign words and even at times by solecisms." [Please select]
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I rushed impetuously out of the cage of my provincialism and looked eagerly about the brilliant universe. [Please select]
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=--In driving the Federalists towards nullification and waging a national war themselves, the Republicans lost all their old taint of provincialism. [Please select]
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The partisan press never exhibited its crass provincialism more shamefully than when it made fun of Gallatin's imperfect pronunciation of English. [Please select]
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That is one of those last remnants of colonialism and provincialism which must depart forever. [Please select]
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It is therefore sheer British jingoism which points to America as the country of Puritanic provincialism. [Please select]
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The New Yorker smiled at the provincialism but sought the banker without further ceremony. [Please select]
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Whenever Thompson twanged, "Put your John Hancock on that line," Babbitt was as much amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. [Please select]
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Henceforward there was peace; and throughout the whole of this northern part of his domains it was the constant policy of Philip gradually to abolish provincialism and to establish a centralised government. [Please select]
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