Word Meanings - DEPROVINCIALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

Related words: (words related to DEPROVINCIALIZE)

• 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.