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/nɛrˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

narration n.

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; a recital of certain events, usually in chronological order; rehearsal.

That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; a narrative; story; history.

(Rhet.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.

Synonyms: Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale; history. See Account.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... described in a chapter of this narration was empty when Mrs. Harrington entered it. The luxurious easy-chairs stood about the floor, as if recently occupied, and the fire of hickory-wood burned brightly behind a fender of steel lace-work that broke the light in a thousand gleams and scattered ...

— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens

... by this time had seen the alteration made in his Cousin's appearance, as well as been delighted with the account of the duel, at which they all laughed during the narration—and immediately prepared for action, while Dashall continued his enquiries as to the fashionable occurrences during ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... interesting and illustrative I have been precluded from mentioning, some from motives which have been already explained, and others from still higher considerations. The most important of these may be deduced from a reflection with which he himself once concluded a long and affecting narration: namely, that no body of men can for any length of time be safely treated otherwise than as rational beings; and that, therefore, the education of the lower classes was of the utmost consequence to the permanent security of the empire, even for the sake of our navy. The dangers, ...

— Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc. • by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... the river at night so as to be unseen by any in the village at its mouth, and had, after the Dragon was laid up, passed his time in the forest. Edmund's narration was much more lengthy, and Egbert was surprised indeed to find that his kinsman owed his freedom to the jarl whose vessel they had captured at the ...

— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty

... people is observable in its successive periods of interest in different kinds of narration, in its attitude toward the relation of fictitious events. The interest in the extraordinary always precedes that in the ordinary; the unstored mind finds pleasure only in the unusual. An appreciation of the ...

— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer

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