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provincial
English
Etymology
From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/
Adjective
provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson
- […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
- 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson
- Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
Synonyms
- rural
Derived terms
- provincially
Translations
Noun
provincial (plural provincials)
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- A country bumpkin.
Translations
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)
- provincial
French
Etymology
From Latin provincialis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.v??.sjal/
Adjective
provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)
- provincial
Derived terms
- provincialement
- provincialisme
Noun
provincial m (plural provinciaux)
- people from the provinces/regions
Further reading
- “provincial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Adjective
provincial (plural provinciais, comparable)
- provincial
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin provincialis
Noun
provincial m (plural provinciali)
- provincial
Declension
Related terms
- provincialism
- provincie
Spanish
Adjective
provincial (plural provinciales)
- provincial
Derived terms
- audiencia provincial
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reactionary
English
Etymology
From French réactionnaire. Used in the time of the French revolution to refer to a person opposing the revolution; as in a person favoring a reaction to the revolution. First known usage in English in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Conspiracy of the 18th Fructidor published in London, 1799.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?i?æk??n(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?i?æk???n??i/
- Hyphenation: re?ac?tion?ary
- Rhymes: -æri
Adjective
reactionary (comparative more reactionary, superlative most reactionary)
- Politically favoring a return to a golden age of the past.
- (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in or inducing a chemical reaction.
- 2013, Brandon Smith, Are Individuals The Property Of The Collective?
- Psychiatry extends the theory into biology in the belief that all human behavior is nothing more than a series of reactionary chemical processes in the brain that determine pre-coded genetic responses built up from the conditioning of one’s environment.
- 2013, Brandon Smith, Are Individuals The Property Of The Collective?
- In reaction to, as a result of.
Antonyms
- nonreactionary
Translations
Noun
reactionary (plural reactionaries)
- One who is opposed to change and wants to reverse it.
- One who is very conservative.
Translations
Further reading
- "reactionary" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 256.
- reactionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- creationary
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