Definition of "parochial" []

• Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a parish. (adjective)
• Of or relating to parochial schools. (adjective)
• Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial: parochial attitudes. (adjective)

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• "No one makes this point better than Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, who often discusses the power of storytelling and its capacity to bring us outside and beyond what she calls our parochial "circles.""
• "Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha."
• "His patronizing view of peasants, with their relative advantage in parochial skills, is quite common."