unhistorical
English
Etymology
un- + historical
Adjective
unhistorical (not comparable)
- Not historical; not based on history.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- unhistoric
- unhistorically
Translations
not historic
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