See Also: donnee(dictionary)

donnee (iou)



donnee noun. Also donne. L19.
[French, fem. pa. ppl adjective of donner give.]
A subject, theme, or motif of a literary work. L19.
J. Carey Those vague economic donnees that we come to expect in a Dickens novel.
A datum, a given fact; a basic assumption. L19.
J. P. Stern Leaving..the question of how such a reverence is possible, we may accept it as a metaphysical donnee.