请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 provinciality
释义

provinciality

English

Etymology

provincial + -ity

Noun

provinciality (countable and uncountable, plural provincialities)

  1. The quality of being provincial.
    • 1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig:
      Her father, who was sitting at the piano, his long fingers raised as though about to play, whirled about and cut in quickly with an unintelligible answer, "Your Aunt Victoria refers to non-existent phenomena, my dear, in order to bring home to us the uncouth provinciality in which we live."
    • 1918, Robert Cortes Holliday, Walking-Stick Papers:
      Our literary gentleman, at all events, found his task very engaging, though as a cataloguer he was much perplexed by the extraordinary informality, in one respect, of formal public papers, a curious provinciality, as he could but take it to be, of municipalities.
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/8/1 13:32:45