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To make free from restriction or limitation or unqualified.

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Usage examples (15)
  • Verb (used with object), : Overzealous followers absolutized his theories
  • Easy, it's when you absolutize an arbitrary (emphasis on arbitrary!) social game rule.
  • “East” than it is to narrowly define or absolutize their respective coherences and mutual differences.
  • That is, they don't take a single passage, absolutize it, and run with it despite many other passages which suggest "other options," as you say.
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