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/rɛndˈɪʃən/ Listen

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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... experiment, and against the father and mother who had wilfully and persistently refused to allow food to be given to the dying child. A coroner's inquest was held, and the coroner appears to have made a very satisfactory charge to the jury after the rendition of the testimony. He said there could be no doubt of the child having died of starvation, and that the responsibility rested with the father, who had knowingly and designedly failed to cause his child to take food. The mother ...

— Fasting Girls - Their Physiology and Pathology • William Alexander Hammond

... Government must always remain in constant anxiety as to the fearful results which must follow from them." In his address of 1884 the Dewan says that "the condition of the Province is again causing grave anxiety." In the address of 1886 the Dewan says "this is the first year since the rendition of the Province (in 1881) in which the prospects of the season have caused no anxiety to the Government." But in the address of 1891 lamentations again occur, and we find the Dewan congratulating the members on the narrow escape, owing to rain having fallen just in time, they had had from famine. ...

— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot

... the blameless Don Sancho done to death than I upon this Friday murdered the ballad that recounts his fate. And she, who had hung breathless on Solon's denunciations of me, whispered chattily with Eva McIntyre during my rendition of "Bernardo del Carpio." ...

— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

... a formal resuscitation of the Greek epigrams, ironical and tender, satirical and sympathetic, as casual experiments in unrelated themes would scarcely make the same appeal that an epic rendition of modern life would do, and as ...

— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters

... "Everybody out!" was obeyed with great reluctance, and usually not until the bath attendants of the Army Service Corps enforced it with the cold-water hose. Tommy, who has a song for every important ceremonial, never sang, "Rule Britannia" with the enthusiasm which marked his rendition of the following chorus:— ...

— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall

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