Definition of Parochialisms

1. Noun. (plural of parochialism) ¹

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Definition of Parochialisms

1. parochialism [n] - See also: parochialism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parochialisms

parmigiano
parmo
parmos
parnauite
paroccipital
paroccipital process
parochial
parochial school
parochial vicar
parochialism
parochialisms
parochialities
parochiality
parochialize
parochialized
parochializes
parochializing
parochially
parochian
parochians
parochin
parochins
parodiable
parodic
parodical

Literary usage of Parochialisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1898)
"... stricken apparently by the obloquy which their affected gibes against the poet's parochialisms had drawn ..."

2. Their Day in Court by Percival Pollard (1909)
"Yet, in 1908, Hamilton W. Mabie—one of the typical deans having in charge our literary parochialisms—after admitting that the short-story is probably the ..."

3. The Preparation for Christianity in the Ancient World by Robert Mark Wenley (1898)
"... transform the duties of the chiefest from the parochialisms of aldermen and bailies to questions of high state policy; infuse all with the incomparable ..."

4. Problems of Living by Jonathan Brierley (1903)
"... with immense emphasis for the Gospel as a fact in history and a practice of living, will have nothing to do with our parochialisms of religious thought. ..."

5. Horace Bushnell, the Citizen by Edwin Doak Mead (1900)
"The danger from social parochialisms of many kinds is to-day greater; and Bushnell's words upon this point are so serious and important that we quote the ..."

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