relativizer
nounEtymology From relativize + -er.
1
Someone or something that relativizes.
- Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Bild it was not enough that Extinction Rebellion had distanced itself from Mr. Hallam. […] “As keen as they criticize climate change deniers,” he said, “they should also do it with Holocaust relativizers.”2019 November 21, Elian Peltier, “Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks”, in The New York Times:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.
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