Transhistorical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Transhistorical is a noun meaning Outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
Meaning
Outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
Example Sentences
An assumption made in much translation pedagogy is that... students are always and everywhere the same. In other words, the student is an invariant, transhistorical subject who is, to all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from his or her counterpart in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transcultural, ahistoricity, nonhistory, nonuniversal, immutable, unhistory.
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