Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Taking little or no account of history.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
unhistoric .
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- adjective Not
historical ; not based onhistory .
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Examples
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"If we can dismiss as 'unhistorical' most of the Gospels 'Jesus of Christianity, what can we of faithful Israel save of our rabbi, Moses, for Judaism?" asks Rabbi Jacob Neusner, a distinguished Talmudist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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The suggestion that the United States government cannot own territory and property is not only constitutionally absurd; it is also unhistorical.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Can a State Take Federal Land by Eminent Domain?” 2010
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The suggestion that the United States government cannot own territory and property is not only constitutionally absurd; it is also unhistorical.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Can a State Take Federal Land by Eminent Domain?” 2010
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But it would be grossly unhistorical to suggest that his was a lonely protest.
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Occasionally the production goes over the top, as in Mary's physical assault on her cousin in their unhistorical encounter at Fotheringay.
Mary Stuart – review 2012
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The suggestion that the United States government cannot own territory and property is not only constitutionally absurd; it is also unhistorical.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Can a State Take Federal Land by Eminent Domain?” 2010
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The suggestion that the United States government cannot own territory and property is not only constitutionally absurd; it is also unhistorical.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Can a State Take Federal Land by Eminent Domain?” 2010
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To the historian and most Christians, this just confirms what we would have expected anyway in ancient texts of this sort: that there are things that are verifiably historical, things that may be but cannot be verified, things that are verifiably unhistorical, and a range of other nuanced points on the spectrum.
Gods, Gospels, and Gotta Think of a Third "G" James F. McGrath 2010
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Marx and Engels wrote rather extensively on this in their condemnation of Malthus' theories, which they showed to be both unhistorical and unsupported by facts.
Deep Phobic Memory Steven Barnes 2010
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Europe's Share in the Ukrainian Malaise: The EU commits a historical mistake denying Kyiv a membership perspective yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Europe\'s Share in the Ukrainian Malaise: The EU commits a historical mistake denying Kyiv a membership perspective'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The EU\'s leaders should try to see the larger picture, remember the recent past of their own countries, and stop their unhistorical cognitive dissonance.
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