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history
  1. The aggregate of past events.
  2. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
  3. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
  4. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
  5. (medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
  6. (computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
  7. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
  8. (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “The idea that it is possible to learn from history is fascinating, but also complex.”
      “The museum has a history of various movements that took place during the last century.”
      “He has an interesting history, from his college days to playing professional ball in the top Spanish league.”
historicism
  1. A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
  2. (art) The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
  3. (theology) A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.
  4. Examples:
    1. “This, it seems to me, is the reason why theory is capable of replacing new historicism altogether.”
      “This is post-metaphysical historicism, after all, and what historicists do is narrate.”
      “He explains Weber's transition from historicism to a historical social science.”
historicity
  1. Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
  2. The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history (ideas, practices, institutions...), as opposed to being natural or universal.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Although some scholars doubt the historicity of this debate, it epitomizes the rejection of Chinese forms of Buddhism by the Tibetans.”
      “It is a means of transmuting historicity into eternity, playing on the conditioned fear of aging and denying the irreversibility of time.”
      “Secondarily, Hamilton deals calmly and reasonably with questions of historicity.”
historiography
  1. (countable and uncountable) The writing of history; a written history.
  2. (uncountable) The study of the discipline and practice of history and the writings of past historians.
  3. Examples:
    1. “His study is especially useful to accounting historians for its appendix on historiography and bibliography.”
      “The historiography reveals insights into the authoritarian mindset of freedom fighters shaped as a product of oppression and armed resistance.”
      “Indeed, her writing falls within an American antinomian tradition and can be seen as an act of sustained radical revisionist historiography.”
historic
  1. (obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
  2. (obsolete) A historian.
historian
  1. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
  2. One who studies or researches history.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The Roman historian Suetonius mentions that the island was captured by the commander Vespasian.”
      “The historian George Bancroft, who wrote an essay on the Acadians himself, was starting his ten-volume History of the United States.”
      “And who better to help share its history than resident historian and fifth-generation Kansan, Deborah Barker?”
historism
  1. (historiography) An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Siegel, Historism in Late Nineteenth-Century Constitutional Thought, 1990 Wis.”
historiometry
  1. A statistical assessment of historical figures or phenomena. [from 20th c.]
historionomer
  1. One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.
historiographer
  1. A scholar who studies historiography.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Wittenberg is an expert historiographer, making this book an outstanding addition to studies of generalship in the Civil War's final campaigns.”
      “The historiographer of the New Scotland is badly off-message here.”
      “The only post for which he made a direct application was that of historiographer.”
historicalization
  1. The framing of something in an historical perspective.
historiographership
  1. The position or office of historiographer.
historiosophy
historicaster
  1. (derogatory) An inferior historian.
historiology
  1. (obsolete) a discourse on history.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For a historian or anthropologist who has researched subjects like historiology, this book may be a summation of arguments the researcher has already encountered.”
historicide
  1. The erasure of history.
historicization
  1. Act or process of historicizing.
historianess
  1. (rare) A female historian.
historicalness
  1. The quality of being historical.
historiette
  1. (dated) A short history or tale.
historicness
  1. The quality of being historic.
historie
  1. Archaic spelling of history.
historiaster
  1. An inferior historian.
historical
  1. A historical romance.
historicist
  1. An advocate of historicism
historicalizations
  1. plural of historicalization
historiographers
  1. plural of historiographer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is Jenkins's more radical conclusions that pose stumbling blocks for historiographers such as Evans.”
      “The ruling historiographers of science cannot be freed from the reproach that they have read Galileo's writings too selectively.”
historicizations
  1. plural of historicization
historiographies
  1. plural of historiography
historicasters
  1. plural of historicaster
historionomers
  1. plural of historionomer
historiasters
  1. plural of historiaster
historianesses
  1. plural of historianess
historiologies
  1. plural of historiology
historicisms
  1. plural of historicism
historicists
  1. plural of historicist
historiettes
  1. plural of historiette
historicities
historicals
  1. plural of historical
historians
  1. plural of historian
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is something Jesuitical about the relationship of these historians to Marxism.”
      “Many architectural historians maintain that Mission furniture adhered more closely to the Arts and Crafts ideals than most British work did.”
      “Accounting historians as a whole have yet to appreciate the important contextual differences now seen in the U.S. academic environment.”
historics
  1. plural of historic
histories
  1. plural of history
  2. Examples:
    1. “But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.”
      “Her works are replete with objects teeming with personal histories and memories that also act as media to convey universal ideas.”
      “Using the aboriginals ' own oral histories, the developer proved that the site had been designated sacred only within the past 10 years.”
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