provincialist
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noun
One who lives in a province; a provincial.
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: the provincialist will mis-pronounce even his leading sounds.
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 Irish provincialist, and akin also to that of the existing provincialist in the district delineated —whether Warwickshire or Middlesex.
One who supports rights of self-determination by provinces.
When I termed him a provincialist the hon. and learned member said he was proud of it. The hon. member says I am a provincialist if I will not consent to a federation which will involve an undue sacrifice of the interests of New South Wales.
Others shifted ground on this key issue, Vogel for example, who began his political career as a provincialist and champion of the rights of Otago, only to become the chief architect of the destructions of the provinces in 1876,
adj
Supporting rights of self-determination by provinces.
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 .
It was in Santiago de Compostela in 1800 that the first Galician newspaper, El Catón 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 .
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6Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary is an excellent work, but perhaps it will be of service only to such men as I have alluded to before: the provincialist will mis-pronounce even his leading sounds.
WiktionaryWhile 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 L
WiktionaryAs 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
WiktionaryNevertheless, 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 v
WiktionaryIt was in Santiago de Compostela in 1800 that the first Galician newspaper, El Catón compostelano (The Compostelan reader), was set up and where, from 1840 onwards, thanks to the decisive action of a
WiktionaryOpposed to this provincialist 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
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