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

Richard Attenborough's much-Oscared movie Gandhi struck me, when it was first released, as an example of this type of unhistorical Western saintmaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Jesuit weekly America, Rutgers Professor James Muldoon has argued that the National Council of Churches' resolution is unhistorical.

From Time Magazine Archive

It sought to look not a few facts full in the face, from a new point of view and with a thoroughly modern though unhistorical spirit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various