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

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

Bultmann's critics today feel that he too casually relegated the Resurrection to the realm of the unhistorical.

From Time Magazine Archive

What deeds could man ever have done if he had not been enveloped in the dust-cloud of the unhistorical?

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