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Definition of Provincializing
1. provincialize [v] - See also: provincialize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provincializing
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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