All 7 Uses of
provincial
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- And if the minister did it he would go to the rector: and the rector to the provincial: and the provincial to the general of the jesuits.†
Chpt 1
- And if the minister did it he would go to the rector: and the rector to the provincial: and the provincial to the general of the jesuits.†
Chpt 1
- Don't I tell you he's provincial of the order now?†
Chpt 2 *
- —By the bye, said Mr Dedalus at length, the rector, or provincial rather, was telling me that story about you and Father Dolan.†
Chpt 2
- Mr Dedalus imitated the mincing nasal tone of the provincial.†
Chpt 2
- He reassumed the provincial's voice and repeated: —I TOLD THEM ALL AT DINNER ABOUT IT AND FATHER DOLAN AND I AND ALL OF US WE HAD A HEARTY LAUGH TOGETHER OVER IT.†
Chpt 2
- They thought of army commissions and land agents: peasants greeted them along the roads in the country; they knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to jarvies in high-pitched provincial voices which pierced through their skin-tight accents.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(provincial as in: provincial attitude) unsophisticated (meant disapprovingly to refer to old-fashioned or narrow-minded attitudes and ideas)