单词 | parochializing |
释义 | > as lemmaspaˈrochializing paˈrochializing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1854 J. C. Patteson Let. 22 Dec. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. v. 184 I have had so very much to do in church and out of it, parochializing, writing sermons, &c. 1878 T. Sinclair Mount 5 It can well be put, whether the parochialising of great men may not be in some way an immoral kind of pursuit. 1884 Nonconformist & Independent 11 Dec. 1179/2 The new constituencies..ought to be able to rise above parochialising influences. 1964 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 6 458 He attributes this change to the generally parochializing effect on land tenure of the central bakufu's tax decrees. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Features section) 11 Nor is it parochialising pedantry to point out..how the ghost of Gaelic syntax shapes some of Beckett's lines. < as lemmas |
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