Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality, character, or conditions inherent in a peninsula.
- noun The state of inhabiting a peninsula, or of being native of a peninsula.
- noun Hence Provincialism; persistence in antiquated or narrowly local methods, notions, or prejudices; narrowness of mind. Compare
insularism .
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Examples
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Hellas and even the Peloponnesus have had their peninsularity impaired and their race mixed, owing to the predominant continental section to the north.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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But its encompassment by the sea, its peninsularity, is the dominating difference between the Seward Peninsula and the interior, and does indeed make a different country of it altogether.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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