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Definition of Historical present
1. Noun. The use of the present tense to describe past actions or states.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Historical Present
Literary usage of Historical present
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"ing a historical present as against 12 in the imperfect subjunctive. ... In Or.
obi. the subjunctive present follows a historical present in I, 14, 6; I, ..."
2. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"historical present. The regular tense for narration is the preterite. ...
The historical present arises when, instead of narrating the events, the narrator, ..."
3. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"The historical present is scarcely to be met with in Old English ; but there are
numerous instances of it from the thirteenth century down to our times. ..."
4. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1910)
"It is beyond question, I believe, that'the use of the historical present in ...
Further, I do not believe that any verb used in the historical present in ..."
5. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"The historical present (467, III.) is generally treated as an historical ...
NOTE— The historical present includes the Present used of authors (467, 8), ..."
6. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1897)
"As regards the historical present in connection with temporal clauses, ...
In the subordinate clause, the examples of the historical present are few. ..."
7. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1903)
"This is the germs of the ' historical present,' used to give greater vividness
... The fully developed historical present seems to be due to Old French and ..."
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