relativizer

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From relativize +‎ -er.

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relativizer (plural relativizers)

  1. Someone or something that relativizes.
    • 2019 November 21, Elian Peltier, “Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Bild it was not enough that Extinction Rebellion had distanced itself from Mr. Hallam. […]
      “As keen as they criticize climate change deniers,” he said, “they should also do it with Holocaust relativizers.”
  2. (linguistics) A grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.

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