The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deprovincialize
Deprovincialize \De`pro*vin"cial*ize\, v. t. To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Wiktionary
deprovincialize
vb. (context transitive English) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Usage examples of "deprovincialize".
On this scale, the events of our history books-even books that make significant efforts to deprovincialize the present-are so compressed that it is necessary to give a second-by-second recounting of the last seconds of the cosmic year.
The study of a single instance of extraterrestrial life, no matter how humble, will deprovincialize biology.