Definition of "relations" []

• Plural form of relation. (noun)

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• "He defines it as "_the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations_.""
• "As, in all cases, we may consider the external phenomena as simply in relation, and the internal phenomena also as simply in relation, the broadest and most complete definition of life will be: -- _the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations_."
• "The relations of the Queen and the King, therefore, to the God-knows-what degree, are to come in shoals and rule the land, when _your relations_ are to be _forbidden_ the country, and that when, as you know, the whole of your relations have ever been very dutiful and kind to the King."