historicity
[his-tuh-ris-i-tee]
- historical authenticity.
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Origin of historicity
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Contemporary Examples
Numerous countries in Western Europe have made it a serious crime to question the historicity of the Holocaust.
Historical Examples
Titles are words, and we do not speak of the historicity or the non-historicity of words.
The Truth About Jesus is He a Myth?M. M. Mangasarian
Meyer suspects the historicity of the first reign, of five years.
But it was not safe to give up the idea of historicity altogether.
The Influence of the Bible on CivilisationErnst Von Dobschutz
There are, indeed, other reasons for doubting the historicity of these two.
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718Wallace Notestein
The belief in the historicity of such an inner life is necessary.
Edward Caldwell MooreEdward Moore
historicity
- historical authenticity
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Word Origin and History for historicity
n.
1880, from Latin historicus (see historical) + -ity.
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