relativize
verbEtymology From relative + -ize.
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
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To make relative.
- to relativize indirect objects
- Derived terms
- overrelativize, relativizable, relativization, relativizer, unrelativized