Vocabulary : Providently to Provinciality
Providently : In a provident manner.
Providentness : The quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.
Provider : One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
Providing : of Provide
Providore : One who makes provision; a purveyor.
Province : A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy. ;; A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital. ;; A region of country; a tract; a district. ;; A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority. ;; The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. ;; Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.
Provincial : Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. ;; Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. ;; Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. ;; Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. ;; A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. ;; A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
Provincialism : A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
Provincialist : One who lives in a province; a provincial.
Provinciality : The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
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