Definition of "historicizing" [historicizing]

• Present participle of historicize. (verb)

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• "In conjunction with this interest in historicizing infant salvation and damnation, polemicists even noted the circumcision — or lack thereof — of crucial historical figures at the moment of transition from the Old to the New Law."
• "In fact, in A Subtler Magick, Joshi gives us his specific complaints aside from objecting to the style of the story -- Gilman is something of a Poe-character, and there are indeed a few lapses that Joshi catches with exaggerated disdain, which uniformly circle around this 'historicizing' material."
• "It's through art history that we see what contemporary art can only suggest: how art over time promotes cultural codes, and as part of its historicizing and status-raising functions--the very functions that make art attractive to the affluent and powerful--art normalizes and perpetuates the specific conventions for a society's arrangement of sex and gender relations and the objects accorded them by the requisites of the dominant homosocial order."