Definition of Historicists

1. Noun. (plural of historicist) ¹

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Definition of Historicists

1. historicist [n] - See also: historicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Historicists

historical linguistics
historical method
historical paper
historical period
historical present
historical record
historical research
historical school
historicalization
historicalizations
historically
historicalness
historicism
historicisms
historicist
historicists (current term)
historicities
historicity
historicize
historicized
historicizes
historicizing
historick
historie
historied
histories
historiette
historiettes
historified
historifies

Literary usage of Historicists

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

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1916)
"The pillars are not such granitic facts as he supposed ; at the touch of criticism they crumble, they have been abandoned even by historicists themselves. ..."

2. Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment by Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler (2003)
"This is the seed of the doctrines of Einfühlen and Verstehen later developed by Herder and after him by the great German historicists, Dilthey, Windelband, ..."

3. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"American literature instructors are also using freely available large text collections such as Making of America and American Memory to "make historicists ..."

4. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"... that a coherent alternative view of science was established and it became fashionable to oppose the radical relativism of especially the historicists. ..."

5. The great prophecies concerning the Gentiles, the Jews, and the Church of God by George Hawkins Pember (1885)
"And yet again ; historicists forget that, since five of the toes are on the right foot and the same number on the left, consistency requires that we seek ..."

6. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"As is often the case with New historicists and other Social Constructionists, Dowling perceives no marked distinction between aesthetic/philosophical works ..."

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