relativize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  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[…]
  2. To make relative.
    — to relativize indirect objects

词形变化

relativizes present,singular,third-person relativizing participle,present relativized participle,past relativized past relativise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
overrelativize relativizable relativization relativizer unrelativized

词源

Etymology tree
English relative
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English relativize
From relative + -ize.
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