relativize
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- relativise (non-Oxford British English)
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relativize (third-person singular simple present relativizes, present participle relativizing, simple past and past participle relativized)
- To make one thing relative to another.
- 1996, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics, page 256:
- 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 […]
- (grammar) To make relative.
- to relativize indirect objects
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to make relative to
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