"overrelativize" meaning in English

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          "text": "The discussion of ethnicity in anthropological and historical quarters has been dominated in recent years by a tendency to overrelativize the notion of ethnicity for precolonial Africa.",
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          "text": "They believe that in emphasizing the autonomy of Christian thinking, postliberalism errs as Barth did in overrelativizing the faith.",
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          "text": "Nor do I want to overrelativize things or establish some sort of spurious moral equivalence between us and them.",
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        "(transitive) To relativize excessively."
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