provincialist – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of provincialist

Adjective: provincialist

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore provincialist
Superlativemost provincialist

Sample Sentences

  • 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 . [1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47:]
  • 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 . [2010, Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín Gonzalez, César Domínguez, A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, page 258:]
  • 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. [2017, Susan Smith-Peter, Imagining Russian Regions, page 175:]

Etymology

From provincial + -ist.