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provisional (less commonly), provisionary a postage stamp surcharged during an emergency to alter the stamp's denomination or significance until a new or regular issue is printed Provisional of, designating, or relating to the unofficial factions of the IRA and Sinn Féin that became increasingly dominant following a split in 1969. The Provisional movement remained committed to a policy of terrorism until its ceasefires of the mid-1990s How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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How do concepts such as strategic essentialism, the politics of location, and strategic provisionality help us to think through these issues? They reveal not only how women's writing drew on his texts as a means of self-legitimation, but also show how the very provisionality or instability of these later constructions of self and world lead us back to ambiguities in the Spenserian oeuvre. One of the beauties of learning is that it admits its provisionality, its imperfections. |
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