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historicism (s) (noun), historicisms (pl)
1. The belief that natural laws beyond human control determined events in the past.
2. The theory that each period of past times has its own unique beliefs and values and can only be understood in its previous period of existence.
3. A theory that earlier periods are determined by immutable laws and not by any human agency.
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