narration

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NARRATION, noun 1. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital. 2. Relation; story; history; the relation in words or writing, of the particulars of any transaction or event, , or of any series of transactions or events. 3. In oratory, that part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action , or simply states the facts connected with the subject.
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