Relativize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make one thing relative to another.

    "However, many thinkers (Protestant and Catholic) have used historical-critical methods to relativize New Testament materials on sex and gender to their original settings, rather quickly substituting for "obsolete" moral prohibitions a modern, liberal set of values[…]"

  2. 2
    consider or treat as relative wordnet
  3. 3
    To make relative.

    "to relativize indirect objects"

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"However, many thinkers (Protestant and Catholic) have used historical-critical methods to relativize New Testament materials on sex and gender to their original settings, rather quickly substituting for "obsolete" moral prohibitions a modern, liberal set of values[…]"

Etymology

From relative + -ize.

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