Synonyms for provincially

Grammar : Adv

Spell : pruh-vin-shuhl

Phonetic Transcription : prəˈvɪn ʃəl

Définition of provincially

Origin : late 14c., "pertaining to a province," from Old French provincial "belonging to a particular province (of friars)" (13c.), from Latin provincialis "of a province," from provincia (see province).
Meaning "of the small towns and countryside" (as opposed to the capital and urban center) is from 1630s, a borrowed idiom from French, transferred from sense of "particular to the province," hence "local." Suggestive of rude, petty, or narrow society by 1755. Classical Latin provincialis seems not to have had this tinge. In British use, with reference to the American colonies, from 1680s.

As in locally : adv regionally

Example sentences :

He arrived in Paris at the age of twenty-five, provincially instructed, but already of a marvellous erudition.
Extract from : « Aspects and Impressions » by Edmund Gosse

Isolate we have indeed been as a people, but not provincially nor narrowly nor proudly isolate.
Extract from : « Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross » by John Huston Finley

If this scheme should prove oppressive, provincially or parochially, he was willing to give it up.
Extract from : « Lord Chatham » by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

The Romans having governed Oceana provincially, the Teutons were the first that introduced the form of the late monarchy.
Extract from : « The Commonwealth of Oceana » by James Harrington

Clay-slate is provincially called Killas; and Porphyry is known by the name of Elvan.
Extract from : « A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End » by John Ayrton Paris

Antonyms for provincially

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