Parochial vs Parochiality - What's the difference?
parochial | parochiality |
Pertaining to a parish.
Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
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* 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
(uncountable) The state or condition of being parochial.
(countable) Something parochial; a behaviour that is specific to a small locality.
As an adjective parochial
is pertaining to a parish.As a noun parochiality is
(uncountable) the state or condition of being parochial.parochial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .
- Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
- But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
- Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .