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Extraprovincial :: Extraprovincial (a.) Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction.

Provincialism :: 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..

Provincialist :: Provincialist (n.) One who lives in a province; a provincial.

Patavinity :: Patavinity (n.) The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity..

Provinciality :: Provinciality (n.) The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like..

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Furzeling :: Furzeling (n.) An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler..

Provincializing :: Provincializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provincializ.

Provincialize :: Provincialize (v. t.) To render provincial.

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect..

Provincialized :: Provincialized (imp. & p. p.) of Provincializ.

Deprovincialize :: Deprovincialize (v. t.) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order..

Patois :: Patois (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

Provincially :: Provincially (adv.) In a provincial manner.

Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

Synodic :: Synodal (n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (a.) Belonging to, or associated in, the same province..

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