historicizing , also: historicising BrE

My spade-side historicizing had made me wonder if perhaps I'd been unfair to the farmer.

Sleekly devoid of ornamentation, it will have a sheer curtain wall and a flat top that repudiate the architectural trend of post-modern historicizing.

He looks at how constructionists apply these levels of criticism, ranging from the mere historicizing of gender, race, the economy or the self through an ironical disillusionment to unmasking or revolution.

Thus this creation account may be seen as either a borrowing or historicizing of Mesopotamian myth or, in contrast, may be seen as a repudiation of Mesopotamian ideas about origins and humanity.

Here, a listener suspected, more than in all the literalist historicizing of the early-music movement, was a sense of what things must have been like in Beethoven's day: an orchestra of dubious polish crammed onto a stage with dreadful acoustics, and yet with those amazing works exploding from it in clear enough outline to suggest their full majesty.