单词 | provincialized |
释义 | provincializedadj. That is or has become provincial (in various senses); (also) that has become a province. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > relating to large division > having become a province provinciate1671 provincialized1832 1832 Times 18 Aug. 3/3 We confess we are not yet so provincialized as to understand what the latter branch of this sentence means. 1888 Century Nov. 82/1 ‘How many did she bring over this time?’ cried a woman to her neighbor... ‘A hundred and fifty, my husband told me’, the neighbor replied in the same nipped and provincialized French. 1929 Eng. Jrnl. 18 549 The realism of the novel in America at the present has more right to that term in its original meaning than had..the strictly provincialized fatalism of Gissing and Hardy in England. 1955 Times 23 June 11/6 A country which had felt itself neglected and provincialized under the Danish and, especially, the Swedish connexion. 1993 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 47 52 The state's policy proved..to provide only a temporary respite from the provincialized policies and vested interests against which it was originally direceted. 2006 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 10 July a3 One of the challenges of Canada is we're too provincialized. We're all in 10 little boxes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1832 |
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