provincialize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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
This little planet could not provincialize such a man.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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