"historiography" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hɪˌstɔriˈɑɡrəfi/ [Canada] Forms: historiography [singular], historiographies [plural]
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  1. Historiography is the writing of history.
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  2. Historiography is the study of how people write about history and how they did so in the past: the "history of history".
    Sense id: simple-historiography-en-noun-1GDHEfI4
  3. A historiography is a written study of how other people have written about some part of history.
    Sense id: simple-historiography-en-noun-LCL940mI
     
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