historical
adjective
of, relating to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events.
unhistorical
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a word derived from
historical.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Vickers called the performance “infuriating because René Jacobs’s decisions — unhistorical, unstylish and profoundly unmusical — cause a cornucopia of horrible aberrations.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2011
I am a Catholic peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness, that thing Jung describes as unhistorical, solitary, and guilty.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2001
Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bultmann's critics today feel that he too casually relegated the Resurrection to the realm of the unhistorical.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both these propositions are put forward with the object of explaining the ultimate defeat of the enemies of the Revolution: both, however great the authority behind them, are unhistorical and worthless.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
