to absolutize

Examples

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• Using property rights to absolutize fetal rights absolutizes women's rights.

  ReasonTV

• If we made the roads, it would be as stupid to absolutize one of them as to absolutize one art form, one political system, or one way of skinning a cat.

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• Arkes makes a good point that we must not give up the role of reason in justifying our rights, and that we are in danger of doing this if we absolutize "religion" simply as the basis of our rights claims.

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• This is the core around which the Christian tradition revolves: the tradition cannot be substituted for, nor can it be absolutized.

  Academic text (2006)

• They deluded themselves into thinking a sound idea, be it democracy for government or free markets for the economy, can be absolutized without becoming self-destructive.

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• When tradition is absolutized, it is precisely Godself who interrupts such rigidity and fosters recontextualization.

  Academic text (2006)

• We should appreciate different views, but we must not absolutize any particular ideology.

• It is important to respect our choices without absolutizing one approach over others.

Antonyms

C

to contextualize

7 6.3

To put information into its background so people understand it better

How Absolute

to absolutize

1 9.6

to insist

∞ 2.8

to state

225 1.6

to suggest

∞ 1.6

to qualify

18 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology