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Spinoza, who was excommunicated partly for critiquing the historicity of Biblical episodes, including Esther’s, believed that, though a force existed, continuous with nature, which might be called divine, no faith in divine intervention in human life could be trusted.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
Music seizes the reins and detonates the studied historicity viewers expect from stories about 20th-century music, pausing to highlight points the reader normally catches in articles about a movie rather than scenes in it: Yes, the blues begat both DOOM and doom.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
The size, scale, provenance, historicity, and repair status are just a few examples of things to consider prior to purchasing.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
To keep him in power is not only a vile curse upon the positive welfare of America, but a lamentable devaluing of our Jewish reasoning, empathy, and historicity.
—Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
Music seizes the reins and detonates the studied historicity viewers expect from stories about 20th-century music, pausing to highlight points the reader normally catches in articles about a movie rather than scenes in it: Yes, the blues begat both DOOM and doom.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
The size, scale, provenance, historicity, and repair status are just a few examples of things to consider prior to purchasing.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
To keep him in power is not only a vile curse upon the positive welfare of America, but a lamentable devaluing of our Jewish reasoning, empathy, and historicity.
—Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for historicity
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“Historicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/historicity. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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