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provincialize

American

[pruh-vin-shuh-lahyz] / prəˈvɪn ʃəˌlaɪz /

especially British, provincialise

verb (used with object)

provincialized, provincializing

to make provincial in character.

Other Word Forms

deprovincialization noun
deprovincialize verb (used with object)
provincialization noun

Etymology

Origin of provincialize

First recorded in 1795–1805; provincial + -ize

Example Sentences

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These geographical conditions conspired to provincialize American culture.

From Time Magazine Archive

This little planet could not provincialize such a man.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Because Emerson had generations of Calvinistic sermons in his blood, some cataloguers, would localize or provincialize him, with the sternness of the old Puritan mind.

From Essays Before a Sonata by Ives, Charles

To consider them apart from this, would be to localize a planetary phenomenon, and to provincialize a law of the universe.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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