NOUN
- significance owing to its history
- the state of having in fact existed in the past
How To Use historicalness In A Sentence
- Morality bears, neither in its progressive realization nor in its guilty perversion, the character of historicalness, — is in no respect a power essentially modificatory of universal history, and consciously aiming at such modification as its end; and even the ideal state is and remains simply the very limited activity-sphere of a special moral virtuosity of the governing individual spirit, without a higher world-historical purpose in relation to the totality of humanity. — Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
