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comprovincial

comprovincial adjective: being part of the same province.

Adjective

comprovincial (not comparable)

  1. Being part of the same province.
    • He the six Islands, comprouinciall / In auncient times vnto great Britainee, / Shall to the same reduce [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his consecration. […] Symeon of Thessalonica states, that the rite of inthronization was formerly celebrated with great...1845, William Palmer, Origines Liturgicae, or, Antiquities of the English Ritual: And a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies, 4th edition, volume 2, London: Francis & John Rivington, →OCLC, page 310

Noun

comprovincial (plural comprovincials)

  1. One who comes from the same province.

Forms of comprovincial

pluralcomprovincials

Origin of comprovincial

From com- + provincial.

Questions about comprovincial

What does comprovincial mean?
Comprovincial means being part of the same province.
What part of speech is comprovincial?
Comprovincial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near comprovincial in the dictionary

  1. comproportionated
  2. comproportionates
  3. comproportionating
  4. comproportionation
  5. comproportionations
  6. comprovincial
  7. comprovincials
  8. comps
  9. compsci
  10. compshop
  11. compshops

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