Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NAR-RA'TION, n. [L. narratio.]

1. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
2. Relation; story; history; the relation in words or writing, of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events.
3. In oratory, that part of a discourse which recites the time, manner or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.