exclusivize

English

Etymology

exclusive +‎ -ize

Verb

exclusivize (third-person singular simple present exclusivizes, present participle exclusivizing, simple past and past participle exclusivized)

1. (transitive) To make exclusive.
   • 1971, Norman H. Crowhurst, Electronic musical instruments:

     Today, we tend to compartmentalize or exclusivize our thinking far too much.

   • 2007, Daniel C. Peterson, Muhammad, prophet of God, page 31:

     It was probably this ecumenism, or syncretism, that made Mecca so little susceptible to the exclusivizing attractions of Christianity or Judaism. What was the icon, in the eyes of the Quraysh, but one more idol among very many?