Life-telling

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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