Definition of Provincializing

1. Verb. (present participle of provincialize) ¹

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Definition of Provincializing

1. provincialize [v] - See also: provincialize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Provincializing

provincial
provincial capital
provincialise
provincialised
provincialises
provincialising
provincialism
provincialisms
provincialist
provincialists
provincialities
provinciality
provincialize
provincialized
provincializes
provincializing
provincially
provincials
provinciate
provinciated
provinciates
provinciating
provine
provined
provines
proving
proving ground
provings
provining
proviolence

Literary usage of Provincializing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Green Book, Or, Gleanings from the Writing-desk of a Literary Agitator by John Cornelius O'Callaghan (1845)
"... instead of in England; they should insist, that the present unjust, or incorporating and provincializing Union, should be changed into a federal, ..."

2. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"... the latter characteristically warning Schurz against the narrow and provincializing influence of Boston and suggesting that he might find Springfield or ..."

3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON, ARCHITECTS) and the literal "provincializing" of learning, that needs attention now, and not least in our graduate schools. ..."

4. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"... the latter characteristically warning Schurz against the narrow and provincializing influence of Boston and suggesting that he might find Springfield or ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Notwithstanding the provincializing agencies, there were many close correspondences between the faunas of the western and the eastern sides of the Atlantic, ..."

6. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Notwithstanding the provincializing agencies, there were many close correspondences between the faunas of the western and the eastern sides of the Atlantic, ..."

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