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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

... saw the preparations of Ned and Tom about completed. There were one or two matters yet to finish on Tom's part in relation to his business, but ...

— Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold • Victor Appleton

... tale, without the slightest bit of fancy- work; but I had to be polite to the curious enquirers, and to pretend that I believed them moved by the most affectionate interest in my welfare. In general, the best way to please is to take the benevolence of all with whom one has relation for granted. ...

— Widger's Quotations from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova • David Widger

... had thought suddenly of Martin. His coming had altered everything. How could she say what she wanted her life to be until her relation to him were settled? Everything depended ...

— The Captives • Hugh Walpole

... indeed divine, as M. Belloc insists, and rightly, sacredly drawn, cannot offend the purest eye. All nature is symbolic. The universe itself is a complex symbol of spiritual ideas. So in the structure and relation of the human body, some of the highest spiritual ideas, the divinest mysteries of pure worship, are ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... health; for a man may be perfectly sound in his physique and still possess a melancholy temperament and be generally given up to sad thoughts. The ultimate cause of this is undoubtedly to be found in innate, and therefore unalterable, physical constitution, especially in the more or less normal relation of a man's sensitiveness to his muscular and vital energy. Abnormal sensitiveness produces inequality of spirits, a predominating melancholy, with periodical fits of unrestrained liveliness. A genius is one ...

— The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life • Arthur Schopenhauer

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