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What does absolutize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make absolute. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
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It is easy to absolutize the properties of discontinuity and change characteristic of the postmodernist's break with historical development.
In this sense, the Holy Spirit brings God's judgment upon the tendency to absolutize any human institution, even the most sacred.
To see the absoluteness of any one entity is thus to de-absolutize that entity and also to absolutize every other entity.
Their concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable.
Recently, there were attempts to absolutize the experience of military conflicts and to promote certain non-viable and even fantastic ideas.
We have learned not to absolutize our troubles however painful they are, but to compare them with the problems of others.

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