Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render parochial; form into parishes. Also spelled
parochialise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render parochial; to form into parishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To render
parochial ; to form intoparishes .
Etymologies
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parochial + -ize
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Examples
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I must parochialize a bit afterward, but you shan't be much victimized. '
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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A cosmopolitanism oriented by varieties of cultural practice in a globalized world makes theoretical room for a critique of secularism, or more specifically allows us to parochialize secular theoretical assumptions, whereas a cosmopolitanism organized by a dialectic of the universal and the particular remains within a modern problematic that tends to validate secular theoretical assumptions. [
Introduction 2008
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You have to listen carefully to what he says and not parochialize him into a single system.”
Billionaire with a Cause Smith, Sally Bedell 1997
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