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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I wish the relater had told us what number of such cushions there might be in that country.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift
These tidings were communicated with tokens of sincerity and sorrow that left me no room to doubt that they were believed by the relater.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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
In the morning, some fishermen saw him floating in his sheep-skin coat, and got him into their boat—the sole relater of the dismal tale.
From A Child's History of England by F. H. Townsend
The story has grown familiar to both relater and listener, and sometimes you are regaled not only with the tale itself, but with the repetition of your own comments thereon.
From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis
