historical significance

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandsignificance

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/
us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/
us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofhistoricalandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhistorical significance

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This context helps explain thehistoricalsignificanceof the early twentieth-century debate about the origins of the scientific revolution.
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The intention is to republish papers of lasting importance andhistoricalsignificance.
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In this way, the study of popular culture offers the promise of research that is both of intrinsic interest and of broaderhistoricalsignificance.
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No idea can have meaning orhistoricalsignificanceunless someone promotes or defends it.
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There is most likely little left of the interior of anyhistoricalsignificance.
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The specimen, which hashistoricalsignificance, has been erratically attributed to either a sauropod or a theropod on the basis of vague phenetic resemblances.
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Theirhistoricalsignificancewill depend on what questions we ask concerning what groups.
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Itshistoricalsignificancewas discussed at length in the introduction.
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This might seem a minor point, but it is of far-reachinghistoricalsignificance.
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Yet hishistoricalsignificancegoes far beyond this attempt to provide psychologically plausible characterisation.
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Nor can its supposed fall from grace carry the considerablehistoricalsignificancehe wants to assign it.
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Thehistoricalsignificanceof the controversy seems to be its novelty.
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The broad contours andhistoricalsignificanceof these turn-of-the-century trends in the politics and the administration of the federal government have long been acknowledged.
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As with most rebellions that dissolve before properly beginning, theirhistoricalsignificanceis generally dismissed.
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Thehistoricalsignificanceof these articles hardly needs emphasizing.
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How do these works help us in answering the question about the worldhistoricalsignificanceof the year 1956?
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Unfortunately, there are few editorial remarks on thehistoricalsignificanceof many detailed entries.
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The international community has recognized the immensehistoricalsignificanceof the huts and artifacts for many years.
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Its contemporary andhistoricalsignificance, for example, is ambiguous.
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But the readings are sometimes shaky and thehistoricalsignificanceof the text has not been elucidated.
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