provincialityn.

Brit.

/prəˌvɪnʃɪˈalᵻti/, U.S.

/prəˌvɪn(t)ʃiˈælədi/,

/proʊˌvɪn(t)ʃiˈælədi/

Forms: 1600s prouincialitie, 1700s– provinciality.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: provincial n., -ity suffix.

Etymology: In sense 1 < provincial n. + -ity suffix. In later senses < provincial adj. + -ity suffix. With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin provincialitas office of provincial of an order of friars (1312 in a British source). With sense 2b compare French provincialité (1639).

†1. Christian Church. = provincialate n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > provincial > [noun] > office of

provinciality1601

provincialship1603

provincialate1739

provinciate1857

1601 C. Bagshaw Sparing Discov. Eng. Iesuits 46 When hee came to Paris, as a man hauing latelie bin in possession of his new Prouincialitie, hee put in practise this stratageme following, of purpose to exempt himselfe from the Prouinciall and his superiour there.

1754 tr. P. Quesnel Hist. Wonderful Don Ignatius Loyola de Guipuscoa II. 229 Ignatius recalled Laines to Padua, and named him provincial of Italy in the room of Brouet, whom he had sent to France to take care of the affairs of the society there; Laines refused the provinciality.

a. Of speech or writing: the quality or character of being strongly marked by distinctively provincial or regional features. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > provincial quality

provinciality1759

1759 N. Tindal Contin. Rapin's Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VIII. iv. 280 In speaking, he was amazingly fluent and copious; but his language, through its provinciality, and his own inattention, was coarse and vicious.

1782 T. Warton Enq. Poems Rowley 46 That circumstance must have added greatly to the provinciality, and consequently to the unintelligibility, of the poem.

1805 Monthly Mag. 20 30 The provinciality of their accent..greatly offends the English ear.

1843 H. B. Stowe Mayflower 314 He was an ingrain New-Englander, and whatever might have been the source of his information, it came out in Yankee form, with the strong provinciality of Yankee dialect.

1943 Amer. Speech 18 269 This distortion of the standard diphthongs is a main cause of the provinciality in much Virginia speech.

b. gen. The quality or condition of being provincial; the outlook, tastes, character, etc., associated with or attributed to people from the provinces; esp. (depreciative) insularity or narrow-mindedness; lack of culture or sophistication. Also: an instance of this; a provincial characteristic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun]

insularity1755

provinciality1769

localism1798

provincialism1819

parish pump1840

parochialism1847

vestrydom1860

vestryism1861

Podsnappery1864

parochialness1866

vestryhood1871

insularism1880

peninsularity1882

parochiality1887

parish pumpery1902

localitis1943

bourgeois-mindedness1955

1769 J. Reed Tom Jones Pref. The characters of Western and Honour I have divested of their provinciality; lest the attention of the performers, to the pronunciation of an uncouth and difficult dialect, should produce an Inattention to the more material business of the drama.

1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 243 This Scotch spirit, this provinciality of public zeal, pervades the pamphlet before us.

1864 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. (ed. 3) ii. 59 In the bulk of the intellectual work of a nation which has no centre, no intellectual metropolis..there is observable a note of provinciality. Now to get rid of provinciality is a certain stage of culture.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Aug. 1/1 The petty personalities, the mean ambitions, and narrow provincialities of too many of his opponents.

1905 Burlington Mag. Oct. 74/1 You admit the glow of Sir Joshua and the superior savoir faire of Raeburn, and see at once Copley's comparative provinciality and formality.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 157 Vaughan Williams..cannot be said to share the freedom from provinciality shown by Elgar.

1966 New Statesman 14 Jan. 51/2 Nobody these days can afford to speak up for provinciality.

1992 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 150/1 The White City..provoked him with its beauty, its grandeur that had rotted into provinciality, and its metaphysical intimations of both catastrophe and absurd serenity.

3. Ecology and Palaeontology. The degree of restriction of the distribution of a plant or animal community to a particular province or group of provinces; the degree of endemism. Cf. province n. 7a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [noun]

cosmopolitanism1870

endemicity1886

endemism1886

bipolarity1896

radiation1898

zonation1898

frequency1913

provincialism1929

overdispersion1930

under-dispersion1935

provinciality1952

1952 Jrnl. Paleontol. 26 326 The history of the brachiopods is characterized by evolutionary bursts... The bursts..show considerable provinciality.

1969 Spec. Papers Geol. Soc. Amer. No. 119. 3 The waxing and waning of provinciality displayed by Lower Devonian invertebrate faunas can be viewed in another way.

1971 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 270 257 Degrees of faunal resemblance..can be measured by a Provinciality Index (PI) consisting of a weighted ratio of common and endemic genera.

1988 New Scientist 26 Nov. 26/2 There is provinciality between Scandinavian fossils and British ones, and even between the different blocks of British rocks.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	provinciality
释义	provincialityn. Brit. /prəˌvɪnʃɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /prəˌvɪn(t)ʃiˈælədi/, /proʊˌvɪn(t)ʃiˈælədi/ Forms: 1600s prouincialitie, 1700s– provinciality. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: provincial n., -ity suffix. Etymology: In sense 1 < provincial n. + -ity suffix. In later senses < provincial adj. + -ity suffix. With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin provincialitas office of provincial of an order of friars (1312 in a British source). With sense 2b compare French provincialité (1639). †1. Christian Church. = provincialate n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > provincial > [noun] > office of provinciality1601 provincialship1603 provincialate1739 provinciate1857 1601 C. Bagshaw Sparing Discov. Eng. Iesuits 46 When hee came to Paris, as a man hauing latelie bin in possession of his new Prouincialitie, hee put in practise this stratageme following, of purpose to exempt himselfe from the Prouinciall and his superiour there. 1754 tr. P. Quesnel Hist. Wonderful Don Ignatius Loyola de Guipuscoa II. 229 Ignatius recalled Laines to Padua, and named him provincial of Italy in the room of Brouet, whom he had sent to France to take care of the affairs of the society there; Laines refused the provinciality. 2. a. Of speech or writing: the quality or character of being strongly marked by distinctively provincial or regional features. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > provincial quality provinciality1759 1759 N. Tindal Contin. Rapin's Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VIII. iv. 280 In speaking, he was amazingly fluent and copious; but his language, through its provinciality, and his own inattention, was coarse and vicious. 1782 T. Warton Enq. Poems Rowley 46 That circumstance must have added greatly to the provinciality, and consequently to the unintelligibility, of the poem. 1805 Monthly Mag. 20 30 The provinciality of their accent..greatly offends the English ear. 1843 H. B. Stowe Mayflower 314 He was an ingrain New-Englander, and whatever might have been the source of his information, it came out in Yankee form, with the strong provinciality of Yankee dialect. 1943 Amer. Speech 18 269 This distortion of the standard diphthongs is a main cause of the provinciality in much Virginia speech. b. gen. The quality or condition of being provincial; the outlook, tastes, character, etc., associated with or attributed to people from the provinces; esp. (depreciative) insularity or narrow-mindedness; lack of culture or sophistication. Also: an instance of this; a provincial characteristic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun] insularity1755 provinciality1769 localism1798 provincialism1819 parish pump1840 parochialism1847 vestrydom1860 vestryism1861 Podsnappery1864 parochialness1866 vestryhood1871 insularism1880 peninsularity1882 parochiality1887 parish pumpery1902 localitis1943 bourgeois-mindedness1955 1769 J. Reed Tom Jones Pref. The characters of Western and Honour I have divested of their provinciality; lest the attention of the performers, to the pronunciation of an uncouth and difficult dialect, should produce an Inattention to the more material business of the drama. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 243 This Scotch spirit, this provinciality of public zeal, pervades the pamphlet before us. 1864 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. (ed. 3) ii. 59 In the bulk of the intellectual work of a nation which has no centre, no intellectual metropolis..there is observable a note of provinciality. Now to get rid of provinciality is a certain stage of culture. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Aug. 1/1 The petty personalities, the mean ambitions, and narrow provincialities of too many of his opponents. 1905 Burlington Mag. Oct. 74/1 You admit the glow of Sir Joshua and the superior savoir faire of Raeburn, and see at once Copley's comparative provinciality and formality. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 157 Vaughan Williams..cannot be said to share the freedom from provinciality shown by Elgar. 1966 New Statesman 14 Jan. 51/2 Nobody these days can afford to speak up for provinciality. 1992 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 150/1 The White City..provoked him with its beauty, its grandeur that had rotted into provinciality, and its metaphysical intimations of both catastrophe and absurd serenity. 3. Ecology and Palaeontology. The degree of restriction of the distribution of a plant or animal community to a particular province or group of provinces; the degree of endemism. Cf. province n. 7a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [noun] cosmopolitanism1870 endemicity1886 endemism1886 bipolarity1896 radiation1898 zonation1898 frequency1913 provincialism1929 overdispersion1930 under-dispersion1935 provinciality1952 1952 Jrnl. Paleontol. 26 326 The history of the brachiopods is characterized by evolutionary bursts... The bursts..show considerable provinciality. 1969 Spec. Papers Geol. Soc. Amer. No. 119. 3 The waxing and waning of provinciality displayed by Lower Devonian invertebrate faunas can be viewed in another way. 1971 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 270 257 Degrees of faunal resemblance..can be measured by a Provinciality Index (PI) consisting of a weighted ratio of common and endemic genera. 1988 New Scientist 26 Nov. 26/2 There is provinciality between Scandinavian fossils and British ones, and even between the different blocks of British rocks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601
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