provincial

CEFRB2

/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/

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Constituting a province.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Of or pertaining to a province.

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More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
2016 May 4, Nicky Woolf, “Fort McMurray: Canada wildfires force evacuation of oil sands city”, in The Guardian
[…] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London:...
That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700
Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135

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From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.