单词 | toynbeean |
释义 | Toynbeeanadj. Of or relating to the historian Arnold Toynbee, his style of writing, or his theories on the rise and decline of civilizations. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > of types of history > of historians, theories, or styles Whig1729 Whiggish1890 revisionist1926 Toynbeean1935 1935 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 7 317 One might even ask if appearance and disappearance is not the fundamental conception of religion... But under the Toynbeean wand I too digress. 1954 W. K. Hancock Country & Calling viii. 221 Even when he has attained these two virtues of attachment and justice, the historian still needs a third, which I call span. This resembles the Toynbeean quality of remoteness. 1975 Asian Affairs 62 239 I speak of dominance in the Toynbeean sense of a dominant civilization. 2016 Pakistan Perspectives (Nexis) 31 Dec. The Toynbeean analytical framework. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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