Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divest of provincial characteristics; expand the views or interests of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
divest ofprovincial quality or characteristics.
Etymologies
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de- + provincial + -ize
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She was eager and impatient to deprovincialize herself.
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