Transumptive vs Historical - What's the difference?
transumptive | historical |
metaphorical
A historical romance.
* 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
As adjectives the difference between transumptive and historical
is that transumptive is metaphorical while historical is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.As a noun historical is
a historical romance.transumptive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A transumptive kind of speech. — Drayton.
- Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive , and withal definitive. — Lowell.
historical
English
Usage notes
* * See the usage notes about (m) for more.Synonyms
* historicDerived terms
* ahistorical * art-historicalNoun
(en noun)- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.