provincial vs tine

provincial

adj
  • Narrow; illiberal. 

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

  • 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. 

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. 

tine

adj
  • small, diminutive 

verb
  • To kindle; to set on fire. 

  • To shut in, or enclose. 

noun
  • A wild vetch or tare. 

  • A small branch, especially on an antler or horn. 

  • A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb. 

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