Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Historical authenticity; fact.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being true as history; historicalness.
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- noun The characteristic of having existed in
history .
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Examples
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Two definitions of the word "historicity" are listed in the liner notes of
NPR Topics: News 2009
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In any case, this particular piece of namecalling seemed a bit rich coming, as it did, from an individual (a distinguished Cambridge geologist, surely well advanced along the Faustian road to a future Templeton Prize) who justified his own Christian belief by invoking what he called the historicity of the New Testament.
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
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Perhaps readers may think I am too insistent about the specificity -- what scholars call the "historicity" -- of the story of salvation.
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A graduate student argued for historicity, that is, reading and usually limiting the Quran with its historic context.
Adventures of an Islamic Reformer at Oxford, London, and Istanbul 2008
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“While the notion of historicity has become ever more problematic for theory,” he says, “at the same time for historiography and its own methodological self-awareness the idea of history as a unitary process is rapidly dissolving” (Vattimo 1988, 6).
Postmodernism Aylesworth, Gary 2005
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Which may lead to an interesting issue about the variable "historicity" of a novel depending on who is reading it, rather than who is writing it.
From My Bookshelf: Recent Reads Erika D. 2007
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Maybe it's a matter of relativity or a sliding scale of 'historicity', where Americans surpass the English and Canadians surpass Americans?
vimy 2007
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Which may lead to an interesting issue about the variable "historicity" of a novel depending on who is reading it, rather than who is writing it.
Archive 2007-01-01 Erika D. 2007
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For us, the "historicity" of Easter, Christmas or Passover is all zero.
unchristmas 2006
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Total "historicity" was impossible, and would leave big gaps besides.
whichbe commented on the word historicity
I heard someone use this word last night (pronouncing it "histor-OS-ity") about Obama; it made me giggle.
November 6, 2008