Provincialism - What does it mean?
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The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
* 1875 , , Manual of English Rhetoric , New York: American Book Company,
provincialism
English
Noun
(en noun)- The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
p 79:
- Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.