donnée
See also: Donnée
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
donnée (plural données)
- A given; in a literary work, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.
- 1884, Henry James, The Art of Fiction:
- We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, what the French call his donnée; our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
- 1911, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature (page 86)
- There is also some similarity between the general subject of both, which is that favourite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- The donnée is from Boccaccio's Decameron, where a party of Florentine gentry flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death.
- 1884, Henry James, The Art of Fiction:
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Verb
donnée
- feminine singular of the past participle of donner
Noun
donnée f (plural données)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “donnée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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