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transhistorical

transhistorical noun: outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.

Noun

transhistorical (uncountable)

  1. Outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
    • An assumption made in much translation pedagogy is that... students are always and everywhere the same. In other words, the student is an invariant, transhistorical subject who is, to all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from his or her counterpart in the seventeenth, eighteenth or...2005, Michael Cronin, edited by Martha Tennent, Training For The New Millennium, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 259
    • Like no other German film, Metropolis has served to demonstrate the alignment of Weimar cinema with the modern imagination and of the Langian style with a transnational, transhistorical modernity.2019, Sabine Hake, “Transatlantic Careers: Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang”, in The German Book of Cinema, page 360

Origin of transhistorical

From trans- + historical.

Words formed from transhistorical

Questions about transhistorical

What does transhistorical mean?
Transhistorical means outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
What part of speech is transhistorical?
Transhistorical is a noun.

Words near transhistorical in the dictionary

  1. transhipper
  2. transhippers
  3. transhipping
  4. transhippings
  5. tranships
  6. transhistorical
  7. transhistorically
  8. transhistoricity
  9. transhistoricize
  10. transhistoricized
  11. transhistoricizes

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