contextualize

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From contextual +‎ -ize.

Verb

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contextualize (third-person singular simple present contextualizes, present participle contextualizing, simple past and past participle contextualized)

  1. To place something or someone in a particular context.
    Antonym: decontextualize
    • 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
      Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.

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Galician

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contextualize

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of contextualizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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contextualize

  1. inflection of contextualizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative