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relativise

relativise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of relativize.

Meaning of relativize

Verb

relativize (third-person singular simple present relativizes, present participle relativizing, simple past and past participle relativized)

  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[…]1996, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics, page 256
  2. To make relative.
    • to relativize indirect objects

Forms of relativise

third-person singular presentrelativises
present participlerelativising
past participlerelativised
pastrelativised

Questions about relativise

What is relativise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Relativise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of relativize.

Words near relativise in the dictionary

  1. relatively prime
  2. relativeness
  3. relatives
  4. relativisation
  5. relativisations
  6. relativise
  7. relativised
  8. relativiser
  9. relativisers
  10. relativises
  11. relativising

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