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Definition of "historicist" [historicist]

  • Of or pertaining to historicism (adjective)
  • An advocate of historicism (noun)

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Use "historicist" in a sentence
  • "Neither were the styles chosen evenly 'historicist' or archaeologic in their composition, often incorporating in their massing a hint of the skyscraper."
  • "My comments about "historicist" arguments were in the context of responses on the forum on which I made them, and Don has misrepresented them as applicable generally."
  • "Which reminds me that despite all the nonsense that is written all the time about Jesus from both the mythicist and theologically driven "historicist" camps you do find occasionally nuggets of gold."
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