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transhistorical
transhistorical
English
Noun
transhistorical (uncountable)
- Outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
- 2005, Michael Cronin, Training For The New Millennium, edited by Martha Tennent, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 259:
- 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 nineteenth century.
- 2005, Michael Cronin, Training For The New Millennium, edited by Martha Tennent, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 259: