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historicity - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
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noun history .
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historic + -ity
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NPR Topics: News 2009
In any case, this particular piece of namecalling seemed a bit rich coming, as it did, from an individual (a distinguished Cambridge geologist, surely well advanced along the Faustian road to a future Templeton Prize) who justified his own Christian belief by invoking what he called the historicity of the New Testament.
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
Perhaps readers may think I am too insistent about the specificity -- what scholars call the "historicity " -- of the story of salvation.
Brothers Judd Book Reviews 2009
A graduate student argued for historicity , that is, reading and usually limiting the Quran with its historic context.
Adventures of an Islamic Reformer at Oxford, London, and Istanbul 2008
“While the notion of historicity has become ever more problematic for theory,” he says, “at the same time for historiography and its own methodological self-awareness the idea of history as a unitary process is rapidly dissolving” (Vattimo 1988, 6).
Postmodernism Aylesworth, Gary 2005
Which may lead to an interesting issue about the variable "historicity " of a novel depending on who is reading it, rather than who is writing it.
From My Bookshelf: Recent Reads Erika D. 2007
Maybe it's a matter of relativity or a sliding scale of 'historicity ', where Americans surpass the English and Canadians surpass Americans?
vimy 2007
Which may lead to an interesting issue about the variable "historicity " of a novel depending on who is reading it, rather than who is writing it.
Archive 2007-01-01 Erika D. 2007
For us, the "historicity " of Easter, Christmas or Passover is all zero.
unchristmas 2006
Total "historicity " was impossible, and would leave big gaps besides.
Riding with Alexander 2004
whichbe commented on the word historicity
I heard someone use this word last night (pronouncing it "histor-OS-ity") about Obama; it made me giggle.
November 6, 2008