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Meaning of overrelativize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To relativize excessively.

transitive

Examples

“The discussion of ethnicity in anthropological and historical quarters has been dominated in recent years by a tendency to overrelativize the notion of ethnicity for precolonial Africa.”
“They believe that in emphasizing the autonomy of Christian thinking, postliberalism errs as Barth did in overrelativizing the faith.”
“Nor do I want to overrelativize things or establish some sort of spurious moral equivalence between us and them.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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