| 释义 |
provincialist|prəʊˈvɪnʃəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. A native or inhabitant of a province, or of the ‘provinces’, as distinct from the capital; = provincial n. 4, 5.
Originally in reference to the French provinces.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xli. (1674) 57 Provincialists are more troubled at the immodesty of an Officers favorite, than at a foul insolency committed by a Townsman. 1796W. Marshall W. England I. 26 A fact of which the mere Provincialists..do not appear to be yet sufficiently apprized. 1817W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXII. 204 Such practical skill comes of itself in condensed masses of population, and it is this which gives the Londoner his advantage over the provincialist. 1834Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 969 He thus spared the [ancient Roman] provincialists those burthens which must else have alighted upon them. 1871H. R. Haweis Thoughts for Times (1872) 44 His ways are inscrutable to small-minded provincialists.
b. (See quot.) rare—0.
1882Ogilvie, Provincialist, one who uses provincialisms.
c. An actor in ‘provincial’ theatres.
1902Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/3 The grievance at the Théâtre Français might well be aired by our ‘provincialists’, both male and female.
2. A supporter or advocate of provincialism, or of the rights or claims of a province. Cf. provincial n. 4 a, b.
1708Ockley Saracens (Bohn) 446 There was only a small party, supported by a few provincialists, in the interest of Abdallah. 1766Gazetteer 11 Feb. 1/2 The latest accounts from New-York..seem to indicate, that a repeal of the Stamp Act will only encrease those provincialists to further demands. |