unhistorical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + historical
Adjective[edit]
unhistorical (not comparable)
- Not historical; not based on history.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:
- There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
- 1979 June 9, Paul Robinson, “Gays in the Streets”, in The New Republic:
- If one is a liberal, one hopes that this political consciousness will eventually find less costly forms of expression […] But it would be unhistorical to bemoan the protesters' resort to violence […] Movements of social liberation just don't happen that way, much as we might wish they did.
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Translations[edit]
not historic
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