partisan vs provincial

partisan

noun
  • A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. 

  • An adherent to a party or faction. 

  • A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting. 

  • A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter. 

adj
  • Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops. 

  • Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party. 

  • Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause. 

provincial

noun
  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • A country bumpkin. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

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