provincialist

provincialist noun: one who lives in a province; a provincial.

Noun

provincialist (plural provincialists)

One who lives in a province; a provincial.
- Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary is an excellent work, but perhaps it will be of service only to such men as I have alluded to before: the provincialist will mis-pronounce even his leading sounds.1809 September 1, “On the Pronunciation of the Londoners and Provincialist”, in The Monthly magazine, volume 28, page 173
- While if they attempt the impossible feat of placing before our eyes the every-day life of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they make them speak with the accent of the educated nineteenth-century Londoner; instead of showing us, orthoepically, that their speech was akin to that of the modern...1884, David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect - Volume 2, page 383
One who supports rights of self-determination by provinces.
- When I termed him a provincialist the hon. and learned member said he was proud of it. The hon. member says I am a provincialist if I will not consent to a federation which will involve an undue sacrifice of the interests of New South Wales.1897 August 12, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 89, page 2909
- Others shifted ground on this key issue, Vogel for example, who began his political career as a provincialist and champion of the rights of Otago, only to become the chief architect of the destructions of the provinces in 1876,2008, Richard Boast, Buying the Land, Selling the Land, page 125

provincialist (comparative more provincialist, superlative most provincialist)

Supporting rights of self-determination by provinces.
- Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47
- It was in Santiago de Compostela in 1800 that the first Galician newspaper, El Catón compostelano (The Compostelan reader), was set up and where, from 1840 onwards, thanks to the decisive action of a group of university students led by Antolín Faraldo, a prolific period began in which the...2010, Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín Gonzalez, César Domínguez, A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, page 258

From provincial + -ist.

What does provincialist mean?: Provincialist means one who lives in a province; a provincial.
What part of speech is provincialist?: Provincialist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of provincialist?: The plural of provincialist is provincialists.

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