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historicocritical

historicocritical adjective: of or relating to a form of literary criticism that aims to understand texts in their original historical context.

Adjective

historicocritical (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a form of literary criticism that aims to understand texts in their original historical context.

Origin of historicocritical

From historico- + critical.

Words formed from historicocritical

Questions about historicocritical

What does historicocritical mean?
Historicocritical means of or relating to a form of literary criticism that aims to understand texts in their original historical context.
What part of speech is historicocritical?
Historicocritical is an adjective.

Words near historicocritical in the dictionary

  1. historick
  2. historicness
  3. historico-
  4. historico-cultural
  5. historico-grammatical
  6. historicocritical
  7. historicocritically
  8. historicocultural
  9. historicodogmatic
  10. historicogeographic
  11. historicogeographical

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