pastoral vs provincial

pastoral

adj
  • Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi. 

  • Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock. 

  • Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry. 

noun
  • A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese. 

  • A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life. 

  • A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish. 

  • A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic. 

provincial

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

  • 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. 

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words pastoral and provincial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )