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donnée

[ do-ney ]

noun

  1. a set of artistic or literary premises or assumptions.


donnée

/ dɔne /

noun

  1. a subject or theme
  2. a basic assumption or fact


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Word History and Origins

Origin of donnée1

1875–80; < French: literally, given, noun use of feminine past participle of donner to give < Latin dōnāre; donate

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Word History and Origins

Origin of donnée1

literally: (a) given

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Example Sentences

In Greece the donnée was a nature myth, and a ritual in which it was enacted.

C'est la règle de conduite donnée par la nature humaine et indiquée par l'histoire.

The donnée of these tales, their spirit, their postulates, are nakedly romantic.

The donnée is one of the great old simple cross-purposes of Fate—not a mere "conflict," as the silly modern jargon has it.

It is true that there is a mention of a bodice for Eve, but probably the donnée of the play was after the Fall.

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