contextualize

• contextualise

contextual +‎ -ize

contextualize (third-person singular simple present contextualizes, present participle contextualizing, simple past and past participle contextualized)

1. To place something or someone in a particular context.

   Antonym: decontextualize

   • 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions‎, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219-257:

     Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.

• contextualization
• contextualizer
• decontextualize
• recontextualize