absolutize

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Etymology[edit]

From absolute +‎ -ize.

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absolutize (third-person singular simple present absolutizes, present participle absolutizing, simple past and past participle absolutized)

  1. (transitive) To make absolute. [First attested in the mid 20th century.][1]

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absolutize”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

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Verb[edit]

absolutize

  1. inflection of absolutizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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