Definition of nonhistorical in US English:
nonhistorical
adjectiveˌnɑnhɪˈstɔrɪk(ə)lˌnänhiˈstôrik(ə)lˌnɑnhɪˈstɔrɪk(ə)l
1Not based on or drawn from history.
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, hers is a strikingly nonhistorical and nondialectical account of antagonistic social dynamics constitutive of an apprehensible social totality.
- They also had their own nonhistorical 'theories' of what the historical mode meant or did.
- Indeed, she criticizes "traditional theory" in light of the rejection of its representational view of knowledge and its nonhistorical subject.
- The film is intermittently nonhistorical, but not ahistorical: it is historically grounded, but sometimes disaligned from historical narratives.
- The god they present is neither the impassive god of the Oriental nor the nonhistorical god of the Deist.
- 1.1 Without regard for history.
pontificating from a nonhistorical perspective
Example sentencesExamples
- He urges us to read Aquinas as responding to a series of conflicts (such as that between Christianity and pagan philosophy) rather than as pontificating from a nonhistorical perspective.
- Indeed I now find myself troubled by the distinctly nonhistorical stance of much of evangelicalism, and therefore drawn to the arguments of the editors about their two great confessional faiths.
- By contrast, the ideals that filtered out from television screens were "simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual."
Definition of nonhistorical in US English:
nonhistorical
adjectiveˌnɑnhɪˈstɔrɪk(ə)lˌnänhiˈstôrik(ə)l
1Not based on or drawn from history.
Example sentencesExamples
- The film is intermittently nonhistorical, but not ahistorical: it is historically grounded, but sometimes disaligned from historical narratives.
- The god they present is neither the impassive god of the Oriental nor the nonhistorical god of the Deist.
- They also had their own nonhistorical 'theories' of what the historical mode meant or did.
- Indeed, she criticizes "traditional theory" in light of the rejection of its representational view of knowledge and its nonhistorical subject.
- Indeed, hers is a strikingly nonhistorical and nondialectical account of antagonistic social dynamics constitutive of an apprehensible social totality.
- 1.1 Without regard for history.
pontificating from a nonhistorical perspective
Example sentencesExamples
- He urges us to read Aquinas as responding to a series of conflicts (such as that between Christianity and pagan philosophy) rather than as pontificating from a nonhistorical perspective.
- Indeed I now find myself troubled by the distinctly nonhistorical stance of much of evangelicalism, and therefore drawn to the arguments of the editors about their two great confessional faiths.
- By contrast, the ideals that filtered out from television screens were "simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual."