provincialist

English

Etymology

From provincial +‎ -ist.

Noun

provincialist (plural provincialists)

1. One who lives in a province; a provincial.
   • 1809 September 1, “On the Pronunciation of the Londoners and Provincialist”, in The Monthly magazine, volume 28, page 173:

     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.

   • 1884, David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect - Volume 2, page 383:

     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.

   • 2005, Raymond Detrez, ‎Pieter Plas, Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans, page 119:

     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 the provincialist'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 miserable peasant.

2. One who supports rights of self-determination by provinces.
   • 1897 August 12, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 89, page 2909:

     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.

   • 2008, Richard Boast, Buying the Land, Selling the Land, page 125:

     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,

   • 2023, Anthony Trollope, The Tireless Traveler, page 204:

     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 a provincialist or a non-provincialist.

Adjective

provincialist (comparative more provincialist, superlative most provincialist)

1. Supporting rights of self-determination by provinces.
   • 1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47:

     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, page 258:

     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 .

   • 2017, Susan Smith-Peter, Imagining Russian Regions, page 175:

     Opposed 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 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.

Romanian

Etymology

From provincial +‎ -ist.

Adjective

provincialist m or n (feminine singular provincialistă, masculine plural provincialiști, feminine and neuter plural provincialiste)

1. provincialist

Declension

Declension of provincialist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	provincialist		provincialistă	provincialiști	provincialiste
	definite	provincialistul		provincialista	provincialiștii	provincialistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	provincialist		provincialiste	provincialiști	provincialiste
	definite	provincialistului		provincialistei	provincialiștilor	provincialistelor