How to Use historicity in a Sentence

historicity

noun
  • The film’s chronology and historicity function much the same way.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also a curious lack of historicity that feels freeing.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Crew members even had time for two television broadcasts to celebrate the flight's historicity.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • The historicity of this candidacy, of all the candidacies — that speaks to us.
    — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The show does ultimately take creative liberties to veer away from strict historicity.
    — Anhar Karim, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This is due largely to the strange and beautiful way in which Raulff handles the problem of historicity and narrative.
    — C. E. Morgan, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Her sudden pivot from folk-music historicity to pop ubiquity was breathtaking.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • What these folks want is a new house wearing the skin of an old house, often for the purpose of communicating authenticity or historicity.
    — Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2018
  • 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, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Numerous theories of music and art propose that a crucial element of late-style is an emphasis on historicity.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • His historicity is further established by a surviving letter written to him by the bishop of Clermont.
    — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Biblical archaeologists have long been motivated by their faith to explore the historicity of biblical events.
    — Daryl Austin, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2020
  • That’s a fundamental aspect of Judaism, not a religious aspect but a link with universalism, with historicity.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Schubert’s piece, surely a commentary on the genre, its heroes, and his budding self-awareness, were seen, and played, through a sophisticated lens of biography and historicity.
    — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Could employees who question scriptural historicity or undergoing a faith crisis talk to their bishops without being worried about job security?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Cut to 2016, when Netflix premiered The Crown, that sense of irony and historicity vanished in the grandeur of the series’ production value.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 26 Nov. 2020
  • For Enwezor, Simpson’s work bears witness to a passage from representation to historicity in the course of which an individual becomes a metaphor for a group that is more than the sum of its parts.
    — Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The silverware onboard, by the way, was used by the Italian navy in the 1920s—there’s historicity for you, regarding something quite new under the Tuscan sun.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The digital face with LED numbers of the Pulsar lost historicity and inculcated a perpetual present available at the push of a button.
    — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
  • But that soapiness does sap Snowfall of some of its credibility and historicity, turning the show from gripping piece of crime history to later-season Breaking Bad knockoff.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 5 July 2017
  • 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
  • Now, some faithful Latter-day Saint scholars and respectful outside historians — laying aside the book’s historicity claims — have begun exploring Smith’s work as a translator.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The result is a three-bedroom residence that exudes historicity without sacrificing contemporary creature comforts—which blend seamlessly into the old architecture anyway.
    — Lauren Ro, Curbed, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan want to explore that further in Season 2, that historicity of the way that women who are undergoing mental health issues are treated and treated very differently than men.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Schliemann’s findings and the continuing work of later archeologists seriously fueled theories of the historicity of the Trojan War, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century bce.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026

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