Definition of Historicalness

1. Noun. The state of having in fact existed in the past.

Generic synonyms: Reality
Derivative terms: Historical

2. Noun. Significance owing to its history.
Generic synonyms: Significance
Derivative terms: Historical, Historical, Historical

Definition of Historicalness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Historicalness

historical article
historical document
historical fiction
historical geographic locations
historical linguistics
historical method
historical paper
historical period
historical present
historical record
historical research
historical school
historicalization
historicalizations
historically
historicalness (current term)
historicism
historicisms
historicist
historicists
historicities
historicity
historicize
historicized
historicizes
historicizing
historick
historie
historied
histories

Literary usage of Historicalness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Doctrine of the Apocalypse and Its Relation to the Doctrine of the by Hermann Gebhardt, John Jefferson (1878)
"A similar relation exists in chronicle and written history in its higher style. Now, in some measure this holds good of the historicalness of the synoptical ..."

2. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1915)
"As for my conception of revelation and of the historicalness and ... There you will see that I do believe in the historicalness of the exodus and of the ..."

3. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1915)
"As for my conception of revelation and of the historicalness and ... There you will see that I do believe in the historicalness of the exodus and of the ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"... special party or sect, but what needs must be, is what Hobbes offers us, and his doctrine of sovereignty is wholly unaffected by the historicalness or ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"But let the term be taken in either sense, we have many doubts as to the superior ' historicalness ' of the solution ..."

6. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1883)
"... historical critics doubt is the admissibility of any unqualified assertion of the strict historicalness of all the details of all its component parts. ..."

7. The English Review (1849)
"... nay, that one chief objection to the historicalness of certain Gospel narratives is found in their reiterated avowal of angelic apparitions. ..."

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