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world-historical

Adjective

Meaning

world-historical (not comparable)

Pertaining to world history; globally significant. [from 19th c.]

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. Walter Benjamin

It comforted Germans because it seemingly rationalized their downfall as part of larger world-historical processes. Source: Internet

Philosophers such as Pierre Duhem and Gaston Bachelard also wrote their works with this world-historical approach to science, predating Kuhn by a generation or more. Source: Internet

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