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Provincialism

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Provincialism'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/provincialism.html. 1828.