deparochialise

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A form of deparochialize — To make or become less parochial; to broaden into a more universal and sophisticated perspective.

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Meanings

verbdeparochialise (third-person singular simple present deparochialises, present participle deparochialising, simple past and past participle deparochialised)

present singular third person deparochialises · participle present deparochialising · participle past deparochialised · past deparochialised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of deparochialize.

    In this field, documentary might do much to deparochialise some of our common ways of thought.

    1998, Ian Aitken, The documentary film movement: an anthology, page 112
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    On the one hand are demands to 'deparochialise' research (Rizvi & Lingard, 2010), or broaden the scale from within nation-states to global arenas, in the 21st century.

    2013, Malcolm Tight, Jeroen Huisman, Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, page 36

    The Scottish poet Edwin Morgan has commented that Trocchi had been desperate to 'deparochialise', and it was this that had swept him into the 'new internationalism of the later 1950s and the 1960s, especially on its French-American axis'.

    2014, Angela Bartie, Edinburgh Festivals, page 102
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