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noun
An approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a “glorious present”.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: historiography, history, human-sciences, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Described by English historian Herbert Butterfield in The Whig Interpretation of History (1931).
