All 7 Uses of
provincial
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Parked in North Prince's street His Majesty's vermilion mailcars, bearing on their sides the royal initials, E. R., received loudly flung sacks of letters, postcards, lettercards, parcels, insured and paid, for local, provincial, British and overseas delivery.†
Chpt 7
- He describes Hamlet given in a French town, don't you know, a provincial town.†
Chpt 9
- —All the leading provincial….†
Chpt 9 *
- Voluble, dutiful, he led the way to all the provincial papers, a bowing dark figure following his hasty heels.†
Chpt 9
- That letter to father provincial.†
Chpt 10
- Master Brunny Lynam ran across the road and put Father Conmee's letter to father provincial into the mouth of the bright red letterbox.†
Chpt 10
- …a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d) extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds divided.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(provincial as in: provincial attitude) unsophisticated (meant disapprovingly to refer to old-fashioned or narrow-minded attitudes and ideas)