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historicism | historicize |

As a noun historicism

is a theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.

As a verb historicize is

to treat from the perspective of history or historicism.

historicism

English

(wikipedia historicism)

Noun

  • A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
  • (arts) The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
  • (theology) A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.

    • Related terms

    * antihistoricism * historicist * pseudohistoricism

    See also

    * preterism * futurism

    historicize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *historicise

    Verb

    (historiciz)
  • To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 19, author=Roberta Smith, title=Sensualist With a Cause in Old Vienna, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The breaking point came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space. }}