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pseudohistorical

Definitions

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  • adjective of or pertaining to pseudohistory

Etymologies

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pseudo- +‎ historical

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Examples

  • I think it would be more accurate to call it pseudohistorical. live Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Reaganesque 2007

  • I really don't think I have the time to wait while you go through Ruse's "pseudohistorical" phases: "from pseudoscience, through popular science, before finally becoming a professional science."

    Big ideas take time 2006

  • Toke holds the dubious honor of being second only to Dark Porch Theatre's execrable production of Eleanor "a pseudohistorical musical comedy set in the afterlife of Eleanor of Aquitaine" in its lust to capture the prize for the most misguided, most ill-conceived, and most incoherent script of the season.

    George Heymont: Too Many Tokes Over the Line George Heymont 2011

  • Toke holds the dubious honor of being second only to Dark Porch Theatre's execrable production of Eleanor "a pseudohistorical musical comedy set in the afterlife of Eleanor of Aquitaine" in its lust to capture the prize for the most misguided, most ill-conceived, and most incoherent script of the season.

    George Heymont: Too Many Tokes Over the Line George Heymont 2011

  • Toke holds the dubious honor of being second only to Dark Porch Theatre's execrable production of Eleanor "a pseudohistorical musical comedy set in the afterlife of Eleanor of Aquitaine" in its lust to capture the prize for the most misguided, most ill-conceived, and most incoherent script of the season.

    George Heymont: Too Many Tokes Over the Line George Heymont 2011

  • There are perfectly respectable historians whose approach is thoroughly secular who do legitimate history, not pseudohistorical conspiracy-theorist mythicist apologetics.

    Gods, Gospels, and Gotta Think of a Third "G" James F. McGrath 2010

  • Whereas YEC used to be mainstream (at least in medieval Europe), pseudohistorical conspiracy-theorist mythicist apologetics never was (and probably/hopefully never will be).

    Gods, Gospels, and Gotta Think of a Third "G" James F. McGrath 2010

  • Hey, the Nazis used to justify their deeds by historical and pseudohistorical arguments, they quoted the Nibelungs and lauded the batlle in the Tevtoburg Forest against the Romans.

    Forty Years of Occupation 2007

  • Clarke is writing a pseudohistorical and one far too leisurely and interested in character to be called a thriller.

    Self-Indulgent 2005

  • Well, at least that was the pseudohistorical guff I was feeding Megan to get her to come down here in the first place.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

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