historismn.

1838 Dublin Rev. 5 359 When the latter, tracing out in epitome the great results of modern British historisms and philosophisms, cried aloud: ‘Tell me, ye learned, shall we for ever be adding so much to the bulk, so little to the stock?’

1897 Econ. Jrnl. 7 452 Hence arises in the field of theory a system of doctrines substantially issued from the classic school, but tempered with the psychologico-utilitarian researches of Jevons and Menger, strengthened by the more trustworthy results of German Historism.

1905 Psychol. Bull. May 188 The visible sources of the conception outlined above are obvious enough—Historism in Germany and Positivism in France—two forms of thought very characteristic of our century.

1939 Mind 48 117 The account of the rise of ‘historism’, which he [sc. Friedrich Meinecke] defines as the ‘affirmation that life is life and that reality is history and nothing but history’.

1973 H. V. White Metahistory ii. vi. 238 He [sc. Schopenhauer] denied all the shibboleths of laissez-faire capitalist theory and of Ranke's pious historism.

2004 P. Lambert & P. Schofield Making Hist. 40 Historism itself was more clearly and certainly more programmatically defined in response to a sequence of challenges to the dominance of political history.