relate
verb (used with object)
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
relater
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a word derived from
relate.
Example Sentences
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So, happening to hear a specially interesting one to-day, I have persuaded the relater to come and tell it to you.”
From Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic by Ethel N. Farnsworth
Stories told to interested listeners by "grandma," an "old hunter," or some loquacious "stranger," usually need to be so revised that the intrusive relater will disappear, merged in the unobtrusive author.
From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett
Sometimes the pathos and interest to the hearers lie only in this—that the relater has observed it, and gathered it, and finds it worth telling.
From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King
Warburton is the original relater of this anecdote, who says he had it from Southern himself.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
The story, hadst thou observed the features and guise of the relater, would have won thy implicit credit.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
