Crossword-Solution: PROVINCIALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Provincialism | n. | A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. |
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| CHARACTERISTIC form of expression | 14 answers |
| pidgin | 19 answers |
| legalese | 19 answers |
| locution | 20 answers |
| localism | 21 answers |
| Parlance | 24 answers |
| phraseology | 24 answers |
| Lingo | 27 answers |
| Patois | 27 answers |
| gobbledygook | 28 answers |
| argot | 29 answers |
| Idiom | 31 answers |
| Jargon | 40 answers |
| wording | 45 answers |
| Cant | 55 answers |
| Gibberish | 60 answers |
| articulation | 71 answers |
| Expression | 73 answers |
| Language | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROVINCIALISM (5)
But somehow I can't help it--I can't!" And the truth was, he loved her as much as a boy of his age is capable of loving, and he would have gone on and married her but for the snobbishness smeared on him by the provincialism of the small town and burned in by the toadyism of his fashionable college set.
Provincialism has no _scale_ of excellence in man or vegetable; it never knows a first-rate article of either kind when it has it, and is constantly taking second and third rate ones for Nature’s best.
Inaccuracy, provincialism, and a too hasty rushing to conclusions, were the rocks that he had split on, but he got his revenge when he said:--“How would I play with you? From all the poppycock Anglice bosh you talked about poker, I'd ha' played a straight game, and skinned you.
Matthew Arnold, by the way, knew so little of the French character as to be altogether ignorant of French provincialism, French practical sense, and French "convenience." "Convenience" is his dearest word of contempt, "practical sense" his next dearest, and he throws them a score of times in the teeth of the English.
And in a like mood Nature made New England and endowed her with purpose, with mortuary frivolities, with long views, with energetic provincialism.
Quotes with PROVINCIALISM (3)
The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.
The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul’s vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself from Jewish provincialism and required nothing for salvation save belief in Christ, was not a difficult one for the second and third generations of Jesus’s followers to make. Two thousand years later, the Christ of Paul’s creation has utterly subsumed the Jesus of history. …
His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.