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RELATIVE. One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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Western values de facto bring the unbearable awareness of the relativeness and non-necessity of the divine, defying the very existence of the sacred world, and, since to the beholder of the sacred mindset the world of his beliefs is everything, the dignity of all those who still hold on to it.
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