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Definition of Nonhistorical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonhistorical
Literary usage of Nonhistorical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"... nonhistorical A terse and trenchant critique of premillenial claims.
PANTHEISTIC DILEMMAS And Other Essays in ..."
2. The Essence of Stigler by George Joseph Stigler, Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore (1986)
"... and it was not sufficient to achieve this equilibrium, because there might
still be nonhistorical fluctuations, owing, for example, to drought or flood, ..."
3. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Carlisle, Lady, in Browning's tragedy, Strafford, a nonhistorical personage whom
the poet introduces in order to add a love element. ..."
4. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"... (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) provides a uniquely personal, but oddly
nonhistorical approach to the relationship between John and William Bartram. ..."
5. Sculpture: The Reliefs from the Theater by Mary C. Sturgeon (1977)
"... in the first half of the 2nd century after Christ, are imprecise, especially
in the case of nonhistorical reliefs, and even more so for provincial work. ..."
6. Modern Thought and Traditional Faith by George Preston Mains (1911)
"I have not proposed to myself to attempt a critical discussion of the traditional,
but nonhistorical, elements that enter into the Genesis narrative. ..."
7. Education as Growth: Or, The Culture of Character; a Book for Teachers by Lewis Henry Jones (1911)
"... nonhistorical being into one who considers the actions of others as carefully
as his own, who understands the motives which underlie classes of actions, ..."
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