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What does diachronic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Occurring over or changing with time.
  2. Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
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It has substituted a diachronic for what should be a synchronic perspective.
Some of the diachronic plans were therefore out of step with the synchronic plans.
It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns.
The distinction between ritual and ceremony as pointed out by Alan Wald can then be analysed from a diachronic and a synchronic point of view.
In essence, then, Steck calls for both a diachronic and synchronic reading of Isaiah.

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