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Historicity
Historicity meaning
Historical quality or authenticity based on fact. | The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
Example sentences (20)
Historicity As a figure of legend whose life only partially took place in times and places covered by written sources, the extent of Ragnar's historicity is not quite clear.
Historicity debate Since William Muir, the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists.
Historicity The historicity of Robin Hood has been debated for centuries.
It is a union steeped in historicity.
Jesus (Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31) assumes her historicity as well as Solomon’s.
It’s the kind of film, in both technical approach and historicity, that needs to be seen to be believed.
The historicity of the anecdote and its origin is uncertain.
Now, some faithful Latter-day Saint scholars and respectful outside historians — laying aside the book’s historicity claims — have begun exploring Smith’s work as a translator.
The first step in understanding that our ritual is to correctly embrace the historicity of slavery: Emancipation Proclamation vs. Juneteenth.
The symbolism and historicity of the “Guinea Coin”, and the name “Elephant and Castle”.
Although Strabo shows skepticism as to their historicity, the Amazons in general continue to be taken as historical throughout Late Antiquity.
Although the historicity of Pelayo is beyond doubt, the historical narrative describing him includes many folktales and legends.
As there are no historical sources contemporary to Hitomaro's time, these historicity of these documents are difficult to verify.
Besides the debate over the historicity of the Qing-era destruction, it is currently unknown whether there was a true southern temple, with several locations in Fujian given as the location for the monastery.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 10 Jan. 2007 In defending the historicity of the resurrection, Sanders goes so far as to state, "That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact.
For he is clearly using what has become a standard device of fiction—stressing the historicity of an event (and the discovery of hitherto unknown authorities) as an indication that what follows is fiction.
For scholars that accept the historicity, see *Michael Cook, Muhammad.
For this reason a religious skeptic might believe that Jesus existed while questioning claims that he was the messiah or performed miracles (see historicity of Jesus ).
Generations of scholars have debated the historicity of Laozi and the dating of the Tao Te Ching.
He stressed the historicity and cultural construction of concepts while simultaneously advocating the necessity of an atemporal and immanent apprehension of them.