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life-telling

noun life-tellings

  1. countable, uncountable The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication. 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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@misc{life_telling_2026,
  title = {life-telling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/life-telling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}