relater
- a word derived from relate.
Example Sentences
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In the first case, the sin is on the relater; and we merely believed him to be a truth-teller when he was in reality a bar.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)
It is quite as bad to be a mere relater of scandal or the affairs of your neighbors.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
For, though by your memory you relate every thing to me, yet as a relater you can not delight me in so high a degree.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
Its relater at least perceived and loved that unaffected benevolence, which invested even Scott's bodily presence with a kind of natural aroma, perceptible, as it would appear, to very far-away cousins.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
"Which is more likely, that the relater of a miracle should have lied or been deceived, or that the thing related should have existed contrary to experience prior and subsequent?"
From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew
