Meanings
- uncountableOutside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
Like no other German film, Metropolis has served to demonstrate the alignment of Weimar cinema with the modern imagination and of the Langian style with a transnational, transhistorical modernity.
2019, Sabine Hake, “Transatlantic Careers: Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang”, in The German Book of Cinema, page 3601 more example
An assumption made in much translation pedagogy is that... students are always and everywhere the same. In other words, the student is an invariant, transhistorical subject who is, to all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from his or her counterpart in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century.
2005, Michael Cronin, edited by Martha Tennent, Training For The New Millennium, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 259
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Spanish transhistórico
- transhistóricoTranslations
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