Explore Historicist through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Historicist meaning
Of or pertaining to historicism
Using Historicist
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to historicism
- In the example corpus, historicist often appears in combinations such as: the historicist, historicist and.
Context around Historicist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Historicist
- In this selection, "historicist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, merely, essentially, architecture, synagogues and buildings stand out and add context to how "historicist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as essentially historicist and static and decades the historicist position has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "historicist" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with historicist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This Historicist building was in use until 1938 and then destroyed during the Kristallnacht main. (15 words)
Wineapple, 237 Critics have applied feminist perspectives and historicist approaches to Hawthorne's depictions of women. (16 words)
Explains how Imre Lakatos developed Popper's philosophy into a historicist and critical theory of scientific method. (17 words)
In the 19th century and early 20th century heyday of historicist architecture, however, most historicist synagogues, even the most magnificent ones, did not attempt a pure style, or even any particular style, and are best described as eclectic. (38 words)
Other critics, such as Dympna Callaghan, look at the play's feminism from a historicist angle, stressing that when the play was written the feudal order was being challenged by increasingly centralised government and the advent of capitalism. (38 words)
In Scandinavia and the Slavic parts of Europe especially, "national romanticism" provided a series of answers to the 19th-century search for styles that would be culturally meaningful and evocative, yet not merely historicist. (34 words)
Example sentences (15)
In the 19th century and early 20th century heyday of historicist architecture, however, most historicist synagogues, even the most magnificent ones, did not attempt a pure style, or even any particular style, and are best described as eclectic.
Explains how Imre Lakatos developed Popper's philosophy into a historicist and critical theory of scientific method.
Historicist buildings made their presence felt on the cityscape until the 1920s sampled by public buildings such as the Staatskanzlei or the City Hall.
Historicist interpretations John F. Danby, in his Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature – A Study of King Lear (1949), argues that Lear dramatizes, among other things, the current meanings of "Nature".
In recent decades the historicist position has fallen out of favor for a more critical and interpretive approach to the historicity of the Aztec mythical accounts based on the original approach of Brinton.
In Scandinavia and the Slavic parts of Europe especially, "national romanticism" provided a series of answers to the 19th-century search for styles that would be culturally meaningful and evocative, yet not merely historicist.
In the beginning of the 21st century, it is again the subject of massive building campaigns, thanks to the historicist and nationalist " Skopje 2014 " project.
In the Historicist approach, Revelation provides a broad view of history, and passages in Revelation are identified with major historical people and events.
Newman himself subsequently rejected the theory of the via media, as essentially historicist and static; and hence unable to accommodate any dynamic development within the church.
Other critics, such as Dympna Callaghan, look at the play's feminism from a historicist angle, stressing that when the play was written the feudal order was being challenged by increasingly centralised government and the advent of capitalism.
The historicist and critical approach to halakha, as well as other features, were emphasized by leaders eager to demonstrate their uniqueness.
These were built across Europe and in the United States in all of the historicist or revival styles then in fashion.
This critical approach is central to the movement, for its historicist underpinning stresses that all religious literature has an original meaning relevant in the context of its formulation.
This Historicist building was in use until 1938 and then destroyed during the Kristallnacht main.
Wineapple, 237 Critics have applied feminist perspectives and historicist approaches to Hawthorne's depictions of women.
Common combinations with historicist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: