Life-telling
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication. countable, uncountable
"Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human."
Example
More examples"Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human."
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