unhistorical

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Mr. Vickers called the performance “infuriating because René Jacobs’s decisions — unhistorical, unstylish and profoundly unmusical — cause a cornucopia of horrible aberrations.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2011

I am a Catholic peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness, that thing Jung describes as unhistorical, solitary, and guilty.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2001

The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical.

From Time Magazine Archive

Non-Bultmannite Biblical critics, such as William Albright of Johns Hopkins, contend that the Marburgers are too skeptical in rejecting so much of the New Testament as unhistorical.

From Time Magazine Archive

But an excess of history makes him flag again, while without the veil of the unhistorical he would never have the courage to begin.

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm