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Word Meanings - PROVINCIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a provincial manner.

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  • PROVINCIALLY
    In a provincial manner.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • PROVINCIALITY
    The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.
  • PROVINCIAL
    1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified;
  • PROVINCIALIZE
    To render provincial. M. Arnold.
  • PROVINCIALIST
    One who lives in a province; a provincial.
  • PROVINCIALISM
    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. M. Arnold.
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • COMPROVINCIAL
    Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. -- n.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • EXTRAPROVINCIAL
    Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • DEPROVINCIALIZE
    To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

 

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