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Definition of Absolutize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolutize
Literary usage of Absolutize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"Sceptical prejudice tends to deny to experimental religion any positive value,
while mystical religion tends so to absolutize the value of religion as to ..."
2. The Finality of the Christian Religion by George Burman Foster (1906)
"This experience is the specific peculiarity which serves better to isolate and
thus absolutize Christianity than the traditional marks of its ..."
3. Modern European Philosophy: The History of Modern Philosophy by Denton Jaques Snider (1904)
"... his absolute Philosophy, he had to absolutize himself, when he had fully evolved.
The thirteen active years of the Berlin Period will therefore be Hegel ..."
4. Tohoku, the Scotland of Japan by Christopher Noss (1918)
"The ascription of divinity to the Imperial House is simply one expression of the
determination of the militarists to absolutize the state, ..."
5. Bearing the Unbearable: Coping with Infertility and Other Profound Suffering by Karl A. Schulz (2007)
"It is dangerous to absolutize biblical statements, because each person and
circumstance is unique and there are many exceptions to the norm. ..."