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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unhistorical

1610s, "not in accordance with history, not being a part of recorded history," from un- (1) "not" + historical. Unhistoric in this sense is from 1801. Related: Unhistorically.

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unhistorical

a. Not historical; not based on history.

Usage examples of "unhistorical".

The crime wave, the financial stress, the frantic efforts to economize, and all the consequent strangulation of popular education and the dissolution of confidence, order and intercommunication--that sequence which we have already traced in general terms manifested itself most severely and typically in this vast, comparatively unhistorical area.

It occurred to me that the painting on the ceiling, like many of those of the Italian and Dutch schools, was utterly unhistorical, but this very fact gave it a strange mood which had an almost uncanny effect on me.

Of course it is in any case utterly unhistorical to talk as if the New Testament were a neatly bound book that had fallen from heaven.

Art fims aside, history in Hollywood is pretty much limited to very unhistorical Westerns and war movies.

In the normal person, all the physiological processes are in their nature unhistorical and incommunicably non-social.

As an organic experience, sex is as private and unhistorical a matter as death or sleep, digestion or sickness.

Artorius during the Middle Ages will naturally take on an even more vague and unhistorical quality among your Terran ancestors.

John Hawkes, who saw wartime Germany briefly as a driver for the American Field Service, has written an unpolitical book but not an unhistorical one.

For many generations the theology of America was distinctly unhistorical, speculative, and provincial.

Having completed the New Testament and several parts of the Old, he was laboring assiduously on a translation of the Bible into the Zulu tongue, when his former doubts concerning the unhistorical character of the Pentateuch revived with increased force.

But as we cannot rightly censure the statesmen of 1820 for not insisting on emancipation, for which public opinion was not yet prepared, so it would be unhistorical and unreasonable to blame the Diet of Augsburg for not granting the complete toleration which we now see was bound to come and was ideally the right thing.