单词 | storytelling |
释义 | storytellingn. 1. colloquial. The action of telling lies; lying. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying leasingc950 fablinga1300 lyinga1300 menteryc1450 blanching1581 forgery1582 whetstone-leasing1598 Creticism1614 mentition1656 falsehood1662 storytelling1681 mendaciloquencec1710 fibbing1749 economy of truth1796 fibbery1857 1681 S. Amy Præfatory Disc. Memento Eng. Protestants (ed. 2) 27 His little Stroke of Common Place Arguments being now spent, he is at last reduc'd to Story telling. 1832 B. Hall Frag. Voy. & Trav. 2nd Ser. II. v. 185 Much swearing in a gentleman is now considered almost as great a piece of blackguardism as story-telling. 1896 Argosy May 625 I know you are anxious for my happiness, Leila. But your story-telling! 1901 E. Sharp Youngest Girl in School vi. 91 ‘Well,’ gasped Jean, as though words almost failed her, ‘I never heard such wicked story-telling!’ 2. The action or activity of telling stories, or a particular story; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling taling1382 storyingc1449 narrationc1450 tale-telling1556 storytelling1681 narrative1843 yarn-spinning1867 narrativity1971 1681 W. Atwood Confut. in Jus Anglorum 171 Our Author, by the Exercise of his Faculty of Story-telling..has given us to understand [etc.]. 1713 Guardian 29 Apr. 1/1 Story-telling is therefore not an Art, but what we call a Knack. 1779 F. Burney Let. 25 Oct.–3 Nov. (1994) 401 His whole Conversation consists in..anecdotes & story telling. 1882 R. L. Stevenson in Longman's Mag. Nov. 75 The early part of ‘Monte Christo’,..is a piece of perfect story-telling. 1894 B. Thomson S. Sea Yarns p. vii In the great bure of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. 1904 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 4/5 Mr. Morrison has rare constructive skill, as all his story-telling work has shown. 1956 R. A. Heinlein Let. 9 Oct. in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 108 I have been fiddling with experimental methods of storytelling..using camera cuts and shifts as rapid as those in the movies. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 June (Arts & Leisure section) 6/2 The narrative therapy movement..advocates the use of storytelling to address childhood traumas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). storytellingadj. 1. That tells a story or stories. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > relating to narration or story-telling narrativec1450 storytelling1759 diegetic1970 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > narrating or telling stories narrativea1652 storytelling1759 1759 Crit. Rev. Jan. 67 Elegance of stile, and a narrative ever hastening towards the catastrophe, are beauties so rarely found among the modern story-telling tribe. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 145 The vulgar story-telling tribe [i.e. novelists]. 1839 Sir W. Hamilton in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1885) II. 301 I resemble only too much the inveterate story-telling button-holder. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Prelude ix, in Tales Wayside Inn 10 The story-telling bard of prose, Who wrote the joyous Tuscan tales Of the Decameron. 1913 Storytellers' Mag. Nov. 294 Bible stories are survivals of the fittest products of a storytelling people. 1944 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 99/1 He's a copy man..but he certainly has a discerning eye for a storytelling photograph. 2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Feb. 17/4 She was..a storytelling Irishwoman who thrilled and terrified her children by the fireside. 2. colloquial. That tells lies; lying, mendacious. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective] leasea900 liec975 false?c1225 unsoothfasta1300 untruefulc1380 trothlessa1393 fickle-tongue1393 truthlessa1522 lying1535 fabling1548 forging1593 mendacious1616 soothless1803 storytelling1839 unveracious1845 fabricatory1855 untruthful1858 falsidical1866 leasing1873 inveracious1885 1839 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i, in Fraser's Mag. May 616/2 What a naughty story-telling woman! 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 13 You ought to be flogged. If I had a storytelling boy I would flog it out of him. 1976 Pop. Mech. Nov. 219/2 (advt.) Everyone has a story telling friend. Send him a BS Liars Club certificate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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