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- adjective Opposing
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Examples
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However, if you are going to link the two, then it is antihistorical to derive 21st c.
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The morphing of contracts to the status of moral law is antihistorical and, practically speaking, bad policy.
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Thus, the methodology of historical linguistics has been abused to support an ahistorical, if not positively antihistorical, model of a Great and Glorious Past.
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It is deeply antihistorical to think that our work can ignore or dismiss Christianity or humanism.
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It is deeply antihistorical to think that our work can ignore or dismiss Christianity or humanism.
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In a sense the Romans took to history more fervently than the Greeks, who had their “antihistorical” side; and at least their genius was more adapted to history than to philosophy.
HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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Greek philosophy has been held to be “antihistorical” therefore, and in a sense respon - sible for the limitations of Greek historiography.
HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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It is often said that allegory, outside the specifically historical mode known as typology, is antihistorical.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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This sentence is often quoted by antihistorical writers; they fail, however, to note that Hegel obvi - ously draws this meta-historical statement from his rather extensive study of history.
PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968
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Existentialism sees man exposed in his nakedness and solitude, it is unhistorical, even antihistorical.
REALISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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