Verb (used with object), : Overzealous followers absolutized his theories.    From Dictionary.com. 

Easy, it's when you absolutize an arbitrary (emphasis on arbitrary!) social game rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [A species evolves only to the degree it transcends its institutional stupidities.] Reference

“East” than it is to narrowly define or absolutize their respective coherences and mutual differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solutions for Homosexual Christians] Reference

To absolutize Scripture is not merely idolatry, treating this element of the created order as though it shared in God's perfection and inerrancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Yeah, but creationists can use the same argument: why should we absolutize the current scientific worldview, when it may change somewhere down the road?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living and Learning in Light of LOST] Reference

All immutable forms, she argues, are potentially idolatrous in that they absolutize particular images, seeming to revere them rather than what they signify.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Theology.] Reference

As to your objection that "everybody is equal before the law" - I would advise again not to absolutize the law, as it is just an instrument for distributing inequality.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It is, as I have already suggested, a worldview that resolutely refuses to absolutize relative perspectives (a tendency that H. Richard Niebuhr identified as the single greatest source of evil).    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 Election] Reference

Meanwhile, in the guise of rejecting absolutes, the adherents of philosophical pragmatism absolutize partisan progressive goals and reconceive "moderation" as merely exercising patience and flexibility in the pursuit of progressive ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's afraid of give-and-take?] Reference

Our awareness of God's absoluteness will show every point of view, every custom, every institution, every style of life of which we know, to be finite and limited and relative; and we will begin to see how frequently we and others falsely absolutize one or another of these into idols before whom we bow in worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: The reality of the symbol of God.] Reference

Both in fact are reductionist systems, reducing man to his economic utility, both have the tendency to absolutize economic life, and both marginalize the spiritual and religious dimension of man, either openly persecuting it or which may be worse treating it as mere private fantasy deserving of no place in the public or economic spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching] Reference

For once you absolutize the relative, then everything else falls into place.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Cosmos] Reference

I must repeat again, the problem with the free will argument is that it tends to absolutize the notion of free will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Porcupine blog] Reference

Neither should progressives absolutize any particular model of economic democracy, for the blueprint mentality is inherently problematic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Reference