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noun

Rendition n.

The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war. "The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition."

Translation; rendering; version. "This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... verse was by no means easy. While Rieti's poetry is not distinguished by the vigor and fulness of the older classical productions of neo-Hebraic poetry, his rhythm is smooth, pleasant, and polished. Yet her rendition is admirable. Besides, she won fame as a writer of hymns in praise of the God of her people, who so wondrously rescued it from ...

— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles

... greatest vocalists, and those mightiest of the masses of harmony known on earth, and possible only in European capitals. Before going to some noble feast for ear and soul, as, for example, Wagner's rendition of his operas at Bayreuth, Carleton would study carefully the literary history, the ideas sought to be expressed in sound, and the score of the composer. In his grand description and interpretation of Parsifal, he likened it among operas to the Jungfrau ...

— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis

... Western New York, and served during the rest of the war. It was when the army was in winter quarters in 1780 that Tatlow Munson painted his portrait in payment of an old debt. Miss Budworth's glowing rendition of Mr. Kilbright's allusions to some of the revolutionary incidents in which he had had a part, made us proud to shake hands with a man who had fought for our liberties and helped to give us the independence ...

— Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences • Frank R. Stockton

... chair, letting her right arm fall lightly across his shoulder, so, when he spoke, the account seemed to have rendition from both ...

— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

... Venice by moonlight, or heard the Vicar's daughter recite "Little Jim," but the favoured few who have been present when Bohm and I were collaborating are the ones who have really lived. Indeed, even the coldest professional critic would have spoken of it as "a noteworthy rendition." ...

— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne

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