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parochial: synonyms: provincial ???

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Definition:

1. Pertaining to a parish.
2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

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The answers were all based on official data furnished by governors and heads of churches, and founded on the reports of district magistrates and ecclesiastical superintendents, founded in their turn on the reports of parochial overseers and parish priests;

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina

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Salo had found Rumfoord to be, still, a surprisingly parochial Earthling at heart.

Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)

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A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness,

J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.51 (1955)

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during Mr. Farebrother's residence in Middlemarch, where he was carrying out some parochial plans;

George Eliot. Middlemarch

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I was too much for her. The parochialism of the ghettos of Gotham had not prepared her for the uniqueness of Your Working Boy.