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- verb Present participle of
provincialize .
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We have attached the memory of the Holocaust so firmly to the defense of a single country — Israel — that we are in danger of provincializing its moral significance.
The 'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe Judt, Tony 2008
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As English policy had pursued the uniform course of provincializing our industry during the colonial period, discouraging every form of native ingenuity, so English criticism, naturally enough, after industry was set free, discountenanced the growth of a native American literature.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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