relativize

[rel-uh-tuh-vahyz]

verb (used with object), rel·a·tiv·ized, rel·a·tiv·iz·ing.

to regard as or make relative.

Also especially British, rel·a·tiv·ise.

Origin of relativize

First recorded in 1930–35; relative + -ize

Related formsrel·a·tiv·i·za·tion, noun

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Examples from the Web for relativize

Contemporary Examples of relativize

The full idiocy of conspiricism at its dreariest has thus been summoned to relativize the crime and, in so doing, deny it.
Naming Europe’s New Anti-Semitism
Bernard-Henri Lévy
June 10, 2014

British Dictionary definitions for relativize

relativize

relativise

verb

to make or become relative
(tr) to apply the theory of relativity to

Derived Formsrelativization or relativisation, noun

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