Meaning of donnée | Babel Free

Definitions

A given; in a literary work, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“The donnée is from Boccaccio's Decameron, where a party of Florentine gentry flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death.”

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