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Parochialism   /pərˈoʊkiəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Parochialism

noun
1.
A limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish.





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... from parochialism. Founded in 1859 and recruited mainly from the southerly suburbs of Manchester, the Battalion lived through the common vicissitudes of the English Volunteer unit. It knew the ridicule and disparagement of the hypercritical and cosmopolitan, the too easy praise of the hurried ...
— With Manchesters in the East • Gerald B. Hurst


Words linked to "Parochialism" :   narrowness, narrow-mindedness


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