pseudohistorical
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a word derived from
historical.
historicaladjectiveof, relating to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events.
Example Sentences
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In the pseudohistorical but influential 12th-century telling of Geoffrey of Monmouth, it was at Tintagel Castle that Arthur was conceived.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
It also started a craze for the pseudohistorical country-and-western ballads that the industry sometimes refers to as "saga songs."
From Time Magazine Archive
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According to this pseudohistorical western, California might never have become a state had it not been for hard-fighting Prospector Richard Conte.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Whole governments are deftly juggled to form a pseudohistorical background.
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Rutgers Anthropologist Yehudi Cohen offers a simplified pseudohistorical argument: the taboo is a holdover of a primitive need to form personal alliances and trade agreements beyond the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
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