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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of relativize.

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Examples

  • Funkhouser does not recognize, however, that abilities can be 'relativized' to specifications of faculties, and so gives a sophistical argument for the claim that everything God wills is willed simpliciter.

    Impeccability and Omnipotence 2005

  • Funkhouser does not recognize, however, that abilities can be 'relativized' to specifications of faculties, and so gives a sophistical argument for the claim that everything God wills is willed simpliciter.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • In general, however, the result is that individual religions are relativized; for all the differences and, yes, the contradictions among these various sorts of belief, the only thing that matters, ultimately, is the inside of all these different forms, the contact with the ineffable, with the hidden mystery.

    The book by Joseph Ratzinger that "changed history" 2009

  • In general, however, the result is that individual religions are relativized; for all the differences and, yes, the contradictions among these various sorts of belief, the only thing that matters, ultimately, is the inside of all these different forms, the contact with the ineffable, with the hidden mystery.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • In general, however, the result is that individual religions are relativized; for all the differences and, yes, the contradictions among these various sorts of belief, the only thing that matters, ultimately, is the inside of all these different forms, the contact with the ineffable, with the hidden mystery.

    Atheism 2009

  • Early Christian creeds and beliefs must be ignored or relativized.

    Did Jesus Claim To Be God? James F. McGrath 2009

  • John, all our differences of opinion have been relativized now that I know we're both Hovhaness fans!

    Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Six James F. McGrath 2009

  • These are relativized and objectified via the "other" books of the law that Moses delivered.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Phil, none of your comments so far has made any sense, let alone evoked even a scent of the 'scholarship' you apparently appreciate, so in the future would you be so kind to refrain from comments on posts that have not only relativized the debate with a wink but also, simultaneously, deconstructed the absurdity of Melanie's argument.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France.

    Annette Wieviorka. 2009

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