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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
provincialize .
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Examples
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We must provide ourselves with the complete equipment, not of a village community, not of a thriving town, but of a true metropolis, large enough for a citizen of the world to live in without feeling himself provincialized, and not too large for one honest mayor like our own to handle.
Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 Various
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No true artist can allow himself to be narrowed and provincialized by deliberately shutting out any class of facts or subjects through prejudice against externals.
A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892
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There is no denying that with certain great gains, the American Puritans became, in a worldly sense, provincialized, and that if they lived in the spirit, they lived in it narrowly, while the others, who lived in the body, lived in it liberally, or at any rate handsomely.
Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878
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And for ages after the Normans enter on the scene, the same provincialized spirit, the same family ambitions, feuds, hates, and coalitions, with some exceptional passages, characterize the whole history.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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And for ages after the Normans enter on the scene, the same provincialized spirit, the same family ambitions, feuds, hates, and coalitions, with some exceptional passages, characterize the whole history.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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But they set up a centralized, de-provincialized process which was exactly the opposite of the Marshall Plan after World War II.
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That was a provincialized, decentralized process, and only recently, in the last couple of years, has that started to change.
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That was a provincialized, decentralized process, and only recently, in the last couple of years, has that started to change.
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But they set up a centralized, de-provincialized process which was exactly the opposite of the Marshall Plan after World War II.
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That was a provincialized, decentralized process, and only recently, in the last couple of years, has that started to change.
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