bagatellize

present singular third person bagatellizes · participle present bagatellizing · participle past bagatellized · past bagatellized · alternative bagatellise

1. raretransitiveTo regard as a bagatelle; to play down, trivialize or belittle.

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   Both at Mari and in Assyria, the prophetic demands for cultic perfection and social justice were theologically based on the divinely sanctioned position of the king between the gods and his people. Therefore, the criticism of the prophets should not be bagatellized, even though it may appear to us as pedantic or indifferent from the ethical point of view.²⁶

   2017, Martti Nissinen, Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 263

   Synonyms: banalize, downplay, make little of, banalize, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, denigrate