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▪ I. ˈstory-ˈtelling, n.
The action of telling stories.
1709Steele Tatler No. 2 ⁋1, I am not in Humour for telling a Tale, and nothing in Nature is so ungrateful as Story-Telling against the Grain. 1713Guardian No. 42 (1756) I. 182 Story-telling is therefore not an art, but what we call a ‘knack’. 1837Lockhart Scott I. vii. 202 He soon became as famous for his powers of story-telling among the lawyers of the Outer-House, as he had been among the companions of his High School days. 1882R. L. Stevenson in Longman's Mag. I. 75 The early part of ‘Monte Christo’,..is a piece of perfect story-telling. 1894B. Thomson South Sea Yarns Introd. p. vii, In the great bure of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. 1903Sat. Rev. 26 Dec. 806/1 He has not the gift of storytelling. 1911W. P. Ker Engl. Lit. Medieval vi. 177 There is a large section of medieval story-telling which is in a different condition.
attrib.1897G. Allen Type-writer Girl iv. 44 The clear⁓cut outlines, the translucent hues,..the story-telling faculty, each charmed and beguiled me. 1904Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 4/5 Mr. Morrison has rare constructive skill, as all his story-telling work has shown.
▪ II. ˈstory-ˌtelling, a.
That tells stories, in various senses of the n.; addicted to anecdote; exercising the art of the story-teller in literature or otherwise; colloq., lying, mendacious.
1766Fordyce Serm. Young Women (1767) I. iv. 145 The vulgar story-telling tribe [i.e. novelists]. 1839Sir W. Hamilton in R. P. Graves Life (1885) II. 301, I resemble only too much the inveterate story-telling button-holder. 1840Thackeray Catherine i, What a naughty story-telling woman! 1848― Van. Fair viii, I have heard a brother of the story-telling trade, at Naples,..work himself up into such a rage [etc.]. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn Prel. 168 The story⁓telling bard of prose, Who wrote the joyous Tuscan tales Of the Decameron. |