different between parochial vs hidebound

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek ???????? (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek ???????? (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from ????- (para-) + ????? (oîkos, “house”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?????k??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???o?ki.?l/

Adjective

parochial (comparative more parochial, superlative most parochial)

1. Pertaining to a parish.
2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

   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.

   • 1918, 1st of February, "Why I Joined The Army", an article in London's Daily Express by Daniel Desmond Sheehan

     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.

   • 1969, T.C. Smout: A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, p 341:

     Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial.

Derived terms

• parochial school
• parochial vicar
• parochialism
• parochially

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parochialis. Compare the inherited term paroissial.

Adjective

parochial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parochiale)

1. parochial

Descendants

• ? English: parochial

English

Alternative forms

• hide-bound (less common)

Etymology

hide (“animal skin”, noun) +? bound (“tied”, adjective)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?d.ba?nd/

Adjective

hidebound (comparative more hidebound, superlative most hidebound)

1. Bound with the hide of an animal.
2. (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
3. (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
4. (of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
5. (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.
   • 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas

     hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?

Translations

See also

• leatherbound