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English

Etymology

From relativize +? -er.

Noun

relativizer (plural relativizers)

1. Someone or something that relativizes.
2. (linguistics) A grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.

Translations

See also

• relative pronoun

Further reading

• relativizer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• revitalizer

English

Etymology

relative +? -ize

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.
   • 1996, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics (page 256)

     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 […]

2. (grammar) To make relative.

   to relativize indirect objects

Derived terms

• relativization
• relativizer

Translations

Anagrams

• revitalize