"provincials" in the noun sense
1. provincial
Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
"the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
2. peasant, provincial, bucolic
a country person
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