1. plural of historicizing; instances or acts of interpreting something in its historical context or treating something as a historical phenomenon
Usage: academic; formal; typically used in literary criticism, philosophy, and cultural studies

Examples

• The scholar's historicizings of medieval texts revealed how social conditions shaped their meaning.
• Recent historicizings in literary theory emphasize the importance of understanding works within their original time periods.
• The professor challenged students to avoid anachronistic readings through careful historicizings of primary sources.
• These historicizings demonstrate how interpretation changes when we consider historical context.
• The book offers multiple historicizings of the same historical event from different disciplinary perspectives.