historical connection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandconnection
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
See more athistorical
connection
noun
uk/kəˈnek.ʃən/us/kəˈnek.ʃən/
the state of being related to someone or ...
See more atconnection
(Definition ofhistoricalandconnectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the last of the cases, however, thehistoricalconnectionwith the planet, and the planet itself, would be absent.
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If two instruments have similar structures, does that mean there is ahistoricalconnectionbetween them?
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That depends on how narrowly or broadly we understand the notion of ahistoricalconnection.
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Although the stem of these forms records ahistoricalconnectionto the passive participle system, ma/ta forms express no synchronic voice opposition.
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First, ahistoricalconnectionmust exist between them.
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The characteristic thematic boundary line already lies here, though, however close one considers thehistoricalconnectionbetween scholasticism and the modern age to be.
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In many cases, he draws his observations about a possiblehistoricalconnectionfrom the grammars he consults, which provides a sense of confidence in the claims.
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This connection is rather ahistoricalconnection.
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Suppose that a belief is about an individual only if there is the right sort ofhistoricalconnectionbetween the belief and that individual.
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What substance is being discussed must be determined as in the case of proper names : by thehistoricalconnectionof the story with a certain substance.
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He certainly was fully justified in saying that there is ahistoricalconnectionbetween this country and the minorities question.
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There is nohistoricalconnectionor commonality of interest.
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It will be the end of a remarkablehistoricalconnection, but, in my view, it is entirely justified.
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However, it provides substantial benefits, often due to thehistoricalconnection.
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But these being the links, there is surely some virtue in the closehistoricalconnection.
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With the possible exception of the refrigerated meat trade, there is nohistoricalconnectionbetween the cold storage industry and traditional dock work.
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The two have ahistoricalconnection.
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Although there may not be for accountancy purposes, yet there is a great andhistoricalconnection, but we are proposing entirely to drop that particular issue in our plea to-night.
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The point of the rural exemption is not whether the house is integral to the management of the estate but whether it has ahistoricalconnectionto the estate.
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Thehistoricalconnectionof his name to literary criticism has created the term "aristarch" for someone who is a judgmental critic.
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