Fromprovincial +‎-ist.

provincialist (pluralprovincialists)

1. One who lives in aprovince; aprovincial.
   • 1809 September 1, “On the Pronunciation of the Londoners and Provincialist”, inThe Monthly magazine, volume28, page173:

     Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary is an excellent work, but perhaps it will be of service only to such men as I have alluded to before: theprovincialist will mis-pronounce even his leading sounds.

   • 1884, David MacRitchie,Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect - Volume 2, page383:

     While if they attempt the impossible feat of placing before our eyes the every-day life of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they make them speak with the accent of the educated nineteenth-century Londoner; instead of showing us, orthoepically, that their speech was akin to that of the modern Irishprovincialist, and akin also to that of the existingprovincialist in the district delineated —whether Warwickshire or Middlesex.

   • 2005, Raymond Detrez, Pieter Plas,Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans, page119:

     As one newspaper in Civil Croatia reported in 1866: Our provincial peasant is some kind of strange, dreadful creature that frightens the krajišnik peasant to his bones; so that even if you were to lay all of theprovincialist's property and wealth at the krajišnik's feet, if along with that you also mention the name peasant he will give it all up and flee in a panic; only to avoid this supposed seven-headed dragon that is the miserablepeasant.

2. One who supports rights of self-determination by provinces.
   • 1897 August 12, New South Wales. Parliament,Parliamentary Debates, volume89, page2909:

     When I termed him aprovincialist the hon. and learned member said he was proud of it. The hon. member says I am aprovincialist if I will not consent to a federation which will involve an undue sacrifice of the interests of New South Wales.

   • 2008, Richard Boast,Buying the Land, Selling the Land, page125:

     Others shifted ground on this key issue, Vogel for example, who began his political career as aprovincialist and champion of the rights of Otago, only to become the chief architect of the destructions of the provinces in 1876,

   • 2023, Anthony Trollope,The Tireless Traveler, page204:

     They maintain that the present Assembly should be dissolved, and that new elections should be made in reference to this special matter, so that each elector may have an opportunity of recording his vote either for aprovincialist or a non-provincialist.

provincialist (comparativemoreprovincialist,superlativemostprovincialist)

1. Supporting rights ofself-determination byprovinces.
   • 1992, Alan Cairns,Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page47:

     Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v.provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .

   • 2010, Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín Gonzalez, César Domínguez,A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, page258:

     It was in Santiago de Compostela in 1800 that the first Galician newspaper,ElCatón compostelano (The Compostelan reader), was set up and where, from 1840 onwards, thanks to the decisive action of a group of university students led by Antolín Faraldo, a prolific period began in which the pro-Galician discourse was consolidated and a number of newspapers established, enabling the dissemination of the main tenets of the "provincialist.” movement .

   • 2017, Susan Smith-Peter,Imagining Russian Regions, page175:

     Opposed to thisprovincialist group was a centrist strand, led by Ministry of Internal Affairs bureaucrat Nikolai Alekseevich Miliutin, who became the dominant force int eh preparations to end serfdom and argued that it should be uniform across the empire, with only a few tweaks due to regional differences, and that the central bureaucracy must keep firm control of the process at all times.

Fromprovincial +‎-ist.

provincialist m orn (feminine singularprovincialistă,masculine pluralprovincialiști,feminine and neuter pluralprovincialiste)

1. provincialist

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