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relativizing

relativizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about relativizing

What is relativizing the present participle and gerund of?
Relativizing is the present participle and gerund of relativize.

Words near relativizing in the dictionary

  1. relativize
  2. relativized
  3. relativizer
  4. relativizers
  5. relativizes
  6. relativizing
  7. relatlimab
  8. relator
  9. relators
  10. relatrices
  11. relatrix

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