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Definition of "historicized" [historicized]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of historicize. (verb)

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Use "historicized" in a sentence
  • "This is not to say that works of literature must always be "historicized" in the manner now de rigueur in academic criticism, but simply to recognize that what we call "literature" is so as part of an ongoing historical process of reading and analysis."
  • "Ian and Hat: Some books you might want to check out for "historicized" translations are the ones by Slingerland and Gardner."
  • "Their canvases are among the most Romantic ever painted, but that naive Romanticism so resists being historicized that the work figures today only as a distant prehistory to the feverish cult of the new that the New York school itself brought into being."