Definition of Historicity

1. Noun. The characteristic of having existed in history. ¹

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Definition of Historicity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Historicity

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

Literary usage of Historicity

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Many of his Acta Sincera will no longer rank as sincera; and if they be arranged in different classes according to their historicity very few can claim a ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... is impossible chronologically without destroying the historicity of the latter event. Thothmes III. (1501-1447 BC) was the embodiment of the warlike 2 ..."

3. The Thinker (1894)
"LIVING CHRISTIANITY AND THE historicity OF THE GOSPELS.— In the most recent apologetical literature, great stress is laid upon what is called " the evidence ..."

4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1901)
"V. THE SUPREME EVIDENCE OF THE historicity OF THE EVANGELIC JESUS. IT is written in the opening chapter of the Fourth Gospel how Philip, in the wonder and ..."

5. Euphemia and the Goth: With the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa by Francis Crawford Burkitt, Gūryā, Shamūnā, Habīb (1913)
"The object of the following pages is to maintain the general historicity of the Acts of Shmona and Guria and of ..."

6. Biblical Introduction: Old Testament by William Henry Bennett (1899)
"Authorship and historicity. 4. Characteristics. We cannot speak of the authenticity or genuineness of the gospels in the sense in which we apply those words ..."

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