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Word Meanings - DEPROVINCIALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

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  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • PROVINCIALLY
    In a provincial manner.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • QUALITY
    1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
  • DIVESTURE
    Divestiture.
  • DIVEST
    See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
  • PROVINCIALITY
    The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.
  • PROVINCIAL
    1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified;
  • PROVINCIALIZE
    To render provincial. M. Arnold.
  • PROVINCIALIST
    One who lives in a province; a provincial.
  • PROVINCIALISM
    A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold.
  • DIVESTIBLE
    Capable of being divested.
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
  • COMPROVINCIAL
    Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. -- n.
  • EQUALITY
    Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
  • COEQUALITY
    The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
  • EXTRAPROVINCIAL
    Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.
  • DEPROVINCIALIZE
    To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

 

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