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Relation

noun

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together.

The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur. Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation.

A person related by blood or marriage. Synonym: relative. "He has distant relations back in New Jersey"

An act of narration. Synonyms: recounting, telling. "His endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time. Synonym: relation back.

(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups.

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"Relation" Quotes from Famous Books

... sense, which is inevitably and universally misunderstood, and this is an occasion of much of the strife and alarm which has prevailed both at the South and at the North. There are none but these defenders of slavery who maintain that it is a relation justifiable by the laws of the Gospel, who differ from Abolitionists in regard to the real thing which is meant. The great mistake of Abolitionists is in using terms which inculcate the immediate annihilation of the relation, when they only intend to urge the Christian duty ...

— An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism - With reference to the duty of American females • Catharine E. Beecher

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... night of extreme disquiet. It was evident from what had occurred at the mess-table, in relation to the beautiful American, that to her was to be ascribed the wretchedness to which Gerald had become a victim, and he resolved, on the following morning, to waive all false delicacy, and, throwing himself upon his affection, to solicit his confidence, and offer whatever ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

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... concerned to refute a theory which is widely held, and which I formerly held myself: the theory that the essence of everything mental is a certain quite peculiar something called "consciousness," conceived either as a relation to objects, or as a ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

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... tell me your teacher was your lover,—he with whom you were so intimately associated when I first knew you? You suffered me to believe that he was to you in the relation almost of a father. I received him as such in my own home. I lavished upon him every hospitable attention, as the friend and guide of your youth, and now you suffer me to hear from others that his romantic love was the theme of village gossip, that your names ...

— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

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... system would have been mitigated. As it was, in one of the richest and most fertile countries in the world the congestion and poverty were appalling. Competition for land meant the struggle for bare life. Rent had no relation to value, but was the price fixed by the frantic bidding of hungry peasants for the bare right to live. The tenant had no interest in improving the land, because the penalty for improvement was a higher rent, fixed after another ...

— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers

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