historicalness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Historical character or quality.

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  • noun The quality of being historical.

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  • noun significance owing to its history
  • noun the state of having in fact existed in the past

Etymologies

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historical +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Final Crisis #7 - Well, the greatest, most wonderfulest, most marvelost epic in all of the DCU’s historic historicalness is over … and I have no idea what the hell happened.

    31 « January « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • Final Crisis #7 - Well, the greatest, most wonderfulest, most marvelost epic in all of the DCU’s historic historicalness is over … and I have no idea what the hell happened.

    January « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • Final Crisis #7 - Well, the greatest, most wonderfulest, most marvelost epic in all of the DCU’s historic historicalness is over … and I have no idea what the hell happened.

    Quick Hits – Brave and the Bold #1, Fantastic Four #563, Superman #684, and More 2009

  • Is it not obvious that she was a vain and desperate attempt by McCain to throw a bone to the ladies to lure them from Obama and offset his “historicalness” and “rally-the-base” and never anything of serious value?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Newsweek promotes Palin for President 2009

  • "Maybe she chose him for -- for his historicalness," said my Mother.

    Fairy Prince and Other Stories Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • Morality bears, neither in its progressive realization nor in its guilty perversion, the character of historicalness, — is in no respect a power essentially modificatory of universal history, and consciously aiming at such modification as its end; and even the ideal state is and remains simply the very limited activity-sphere of a special moral virtuosity of the governing individual spirit, without a higher world-historical purpose in relation to the totality of humanity. —

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Rather, his boys talk, somewhat sarcastically, about his "lectures" on "random facts of historicalness" and more seriously how he encourages them to pursue their passions.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jane Taber 2012

  • Is it the historicalness or the popculturalness or is that just something one says these days?

    protein wisdom 2009

  • Can a Teleprompter Share A Nobel Peace Prize? speech that was said by many to have much historicalness.

    Planet Moron 2009

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