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

Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence you will not be surprised that I regard some of Mr. Martineau's propositions as unhistorical and untrue.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John