deparochialise

English

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of deparochialize
   • 1998, Ian Aitken, The documentary film movement: an anthology, page 112:

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

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

     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.

   • 2014, Angela Bartie, Edinburgh Festivals, page 102:

     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'.