Both Uses of
provincial
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Worse quarters than Defarge's wine-shop, could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that degree.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- "Provincial," said the spy.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(provincial as in: provincial attitude) unsophisticated (meant disapprovingly to refer to old-fashioned or narrow-minded attitudes and ideas)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Provincial can also mean "related to a province" or "related to the provinces." Its more literary meaning of unsophisticated originated as a pejorative term for ideas held in the provinces that were considered old-fashioned or uninformed by many who lived in the capital city.