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"Provincialism" Quotes from Famous Books

... devoted their lives to the Revolution; though it must be conceded that he did unusual work, especially in his elaboration and interpretation of working-class philosophy. "Proletarian science" and "proletarian philosophy" were his phrases for it, and therein he shows the provincialism of his mind—a defect, however, that was due to the times and that none in that ...

— The Iron Heel • Jack London

... be but one side. It was taken for granted that he, who had spoken so many eloquent words, all pointing to the magnificent future of British North America, all tending to inspire its youth with love of country as something far higher than mere provincialism, would now be among the advocates of federation, and the wise and loving critic of the scheme to be submitted to the legislatures. Though his ideal had ever looked beyond to a wider Imperial federation, he had at his ...

— The Tribune of Nova Scotia - A Chronicle of Joseph Howe • W. L. (William Lawson) Grant

... is obsolete or too new to have gained a place in the language, or that is a provincialism, should ...

— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin

... can be the reason of this undeniable provincialism of the English Puritans and Protestant Nonconformists, a provincialism which has two main types,—a bitter type and a smug type,—but which in both its types is vulgarising, and thwarts the full perfection of our humanity? Men of genius and character are born and reared in this medium as in ...

— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold

... by the provincialism, and attracted at once by the man's intelligent face, and by a keen, misery-stricken, hungry look, which she had ...

— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

Words linked to "Provincialism" : partiality, narrowness, narrow-mindedness, partisanship, sectionalism