Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make provincial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render provincial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render provincial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To render
provincial ; to reduce or allot toprovinces .
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Examples
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We thought about it and came up with the idea that it was about time that I should de-provincialize myself -- grow up, reach out and try to write about the world.
The Creators 1992
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This is true of all who refuse to allow Judaism to provincialize itself by applying for naturalization papers wherever it finds a habitat.
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The result of this policy has been to provincialize the State Democracy, and to nationalize the State Republicans.
Republican Hand-Book North Carolina. Republican State Executive Committee 1906 N.C. 1906
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This little planet could not provincialize such a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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For some years, moreover, the strange phenomenon has presented itself of the provincial towns being the prey of Parisian manufacturers, who reconstruct them and demolish their picturesque antiquity, in order to garnish their boulevards and fine mansions, while Paris, on the contrary, is directed and governed by provincials, who provincialize it just as the Parisian companies parisianize the provinces.
His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876
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This little planet could not provincialize such a man.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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To consider them apart from this, would be to localize a planetary phenomenon, and to provincialize a law of the universe.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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To consider them apart from this, would be to localize a planetary phenomenon, and to provincialize
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Yet there is something very telling about this crude attempt to "provincialize America," as Dipesh C. would say.
DesiPundit Mircea 2010
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