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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English historical English unhistorical From un- + historical.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not historical; not based on history.
If one is a liberal, one hopes that this political consciousness will eventually find less costly forms of expression […] But it would be unhistorical to bemoan the protesters' resort to violence […] Movements of social liberation just don't happen that way, much as we might wish they did.
1979 June 9, Paul Robinson, “Gays in the Streets”, in The New Republic:There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:
Deriveds
Translations (3)
nl onhistorisch (not historic) · de unhistorisch (not historic) · el ανιστορικός (not historic)