relativizer
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English
Etymology
From relativize + -er.
Noun
relativizer (plural relativizers)
- Someone or something that relativizes.
- 2019 November 21, Elian Peltier, “Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks”, in The New York Times:
- 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.”
- (linguistics) A grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.
Translations
grammatical element
See also
Further reading
relativizer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
