Relativize
Full definition of relativize
Verb
- 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...
- (grammar) To make relative.to relativize indirect objects