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historicize

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To treat from the perspective of history or historicism

ambitransitive

Equivalents

Españolhistorizar
Portuguêshistoricize
Italianostoricizzare

Examples

“The breaking point⟳ came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn⟳ toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

historicized historicizes historicizing historied histories historified

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