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Definition of Historicists
1. historicist [n] - See also: historicist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Historicists
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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