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For my story is the church's story, and the church's story is mine.

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  1. noun An account or recital of an event or a series of events, either true or fictitious, as:
  2. noun An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events: The witness changed her story under questioning.
  3. noun An anecdote: came back from the trip with some good stories.

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  • The protagonists of this story are a young woman, Rose Mapendo, and her children. —  Isabel Allende tells tales of passion
  • Thomas, who had been more than usually frisky all day, was taking a little repose on the hearthrug, and as the story was about a cat, had condescended to listen You all know the story--how the White Cat, though in the form of a cat, was really a princess, and how she married the prince, and changed back into a princess at last Thomas listened enthralled, and from the moment the story ended, his Private History began For, at the close of the story, Thomas had quite come to the conclusion that he, too, was no ordinary cat. —  More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme
  • And knowing the whereabouts of Mr. Badger Brush's heart, Conte Crayon did not hesitate to tell the whole story-- winding up with the pointed suggestion that inasmuch as the hero of the story was an animal-painter of decided, though as yet unrecognized, ability, Mr. Brush could not do better than manifest his interest in a practical way by giving him an order. —  Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
  • In any case Ethne has no warlike traits in Irish story, and as Lug and Balor were deadly enemies, it remains to be explained why they appear tranquilly side by side. —  The Religion of the Ancient Celts
  • The story, as told at the inquest, throws little light on what must always remain more or less a mystery This story was as simple as it was tragic. —  Love Romances of the Aristocracy
 

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  1. Middle English storie, from Old French estorie, estoire, from Latin historia; see history.
  2. Middle English storie, story, from Medieval Latin historia, picture, story (probably from painted windows or sculpture on the front of buildings), from Latin, history; see history.

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  1. from Middle English storie, storye (cf. Italian storia, from Late Latin storia), an aphetic form of istorie, historie, history: see history.
  2. from story, n. Cf. history, n.
  3. Sometimes storey, early modern English storie, stourie; from Middle English story, prob. from Old French *estoree, a building, a thing built, from estoree, feminine past participle of estorer, build, from Latin instaurare, erect, build, etc.: see store, v.
  4. Middle English stroyen, by apheresis from destroyen: see destroy.
 

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