historicity
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of historicity
Example Sentences
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Reading Charles Murray on the historicity of the Gospels was not, suffice to say, high on my list of expectations for 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
As I see it, there is a great lack of specific historicity and context with such claims.
From Salon • May 14, 2024
Not much links this novel with Towles’ other work — “Rules of Civility” and “A Gentleman in Moscow,” two books that also have little in common except their historicity and their popularity.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2021
To her surprise, its heartfelt historicity has registered with less scholarly audiences.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2021
I do not see why Madame Blavatsky shold have so strongly insisted on the truth of the story of the roman Kings unless there were more in it than mere pralayic historicity.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
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