DCHP-3

provincialist

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Obs., Now Rare

a native of one of the provinces of Canada.

See: provincial ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1844
Antithetically however, let it be recorded that poor By was an anxious, persevering, generous hearted officer, and like most men valued here for having done us Provincialists anygood, was most ungraciously received at home.
2n. — Hist.

a person who advocated the dominance of provincial rights at the expense of a strong central government.

Quotations

1882
This is where issue is joined by Federalists on the one hand and Provincialists on the other, and the more violent of the Provincialists are the malcontents who do not believe in constitutional means to secure a just interpretation, but who wish not only to be expounders of the constitution but violators of it.