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[ noun ] a lack of sophistication

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public , of the newspaper_critic , and of the creative artist himself .

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narrow-mindedness

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[ noun ] a partiality for some particular place

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

He saw Sweden as a country of smug and narrow provincialism , indifferent to the heroic spirit of its former glory .

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partiality

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