Provincialized

We must provide ourselves with the complete equipment, not of a village community, not of a thriving town, but of a true metropolis, large enough for a citizen of the world to live in without feeling himself provincialized, and not too large for one honest mayor like our own to handle. ❋ Various (N/A)

No true artist can allow himself to be narrowed and provincialized by deliberately shutting out any class of facts or subjects through prejudice against externals. ❋ Anna Julia (1892)

There is no denying that with certain great gains, the American Puritans became, in a worldly sense, provincialized, and that if they lived in the spirit, they lived in it narrowly, while the others, who lived in the body, lived in it liberally, or at any rate handsomely. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

And for ages after the Normans enter on the scene, the same provincialized spirit, the same family ambitions, feuds, hates, and coalitions, with some exceptional passages, characterize the whole history. ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)

But they set up a centralized, de-provincialized process which was exactly the opposite of the Marshall Plan after World War II. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That was a provincialized, decentralized process, and only recently, in the last couple of years, has that started to change. ❋ Unknown (2009)