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parochialize

American

[puh-roh-kee-uh-lahyz] / pəˈroʊ ki əˌlaɪz /

especially British, parochialise

verb (used with object)

parochialized, parochializing

to make parochial.

verb (used without object)

parochialized, parochializing

to work in or for a parish.

Other Word Forms

de-parochialize

verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of parochialize

First recorded in 1840–50; parochial + -ize

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parochialize parochializing

I must parochialize a bit afterward, but you shan't be much victimized.'

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He is on record as finding the label Jewish writer "intellectually vulgar, unnecessarily parochializing and utterly without value."

From Time Magazine Archive

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