superhistorical
superhistorical adjective: above or beyond history.
Adjective
superhistorical (comparative more superhistorical, superlative most superhistorical)
- Above or beyond history.
- In our day Roy Basler's The Lincoln Legend and Lloyd Lewis' Myths After Lincoln have demonstrated that the most popular and admired of all American heroes has long ago been made superhistorical in myth; he has become, at least north of the Potomac, a household deity.1954, Marshall Fishwick, “American Heroes:Columbia's Path”, in Western Folklore, volume 13, number 2/3, page 155
- It is rather that, precisely because it is fraught with history, a work like Ulysses affirms the need to see the experience simultaneously under a superhistorical sign.2008, David Bradshaw, A Concise Companion to Modernism, page 67
Forms of superhistorical
| comparative | more superhistorical |
|---|---|
| superlative | most superhistorical |
Origin of superhistorical
From super- + historical.
Questions about superhistorical
- What does superhistorical mean?
- Superhistorical means above or beyond history.
- What part of speech is superhistorical?
- Superhistorical is an adjective.
Words near superhistorical in the dictionary
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