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Webster 1913 Edition
Provincialism
Pro-vin′cial-ism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
provincialisme
.] 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.
M. Arnold.
Webster 1828 Edition
Provincialism
PROVIN'CIALISM
,Noun.