Historicize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Historicize is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To treat from the perspective of history or historicism.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To treat from the perspective of history or historicism.
Example Sentences
The breaking point came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space.
Word Forms
- historicizes
- historicizing
- historicized
- historicise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include historicise, historize, transhistoricize, historify, hypostatize, mythicize.
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