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
To her surprise, its heartfelt historicity has registered with less scholarly audiences.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2021
There’s also a curious lack of historicity that feels freeing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2020
The historicity of the story is doubted, and its narrow outlook is not that of prophetic Judaism.
From Judaism by Abrahams, Israel
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