ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unhistorical

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unhistorical is an adjective meaning Not historical; not based on history.

Meaning

Not historical; not based on history.

Example Sentences

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.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anhistorical, unhistoric, nonhistorical, unhistoried, nonhistoriographic, ahistorical.

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