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Definition of Rendition
1. Noun. A performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.. "They heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert"
2. Noun. An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious. "Often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"
Specialized synonyms: Broad Interpretation, Judicial Activism
Generic synonyms: Explanation
Derivative terms: Interpret, Interpret, Interpret, Interpret
3. Noun. Handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed.
4. Noun. The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance. "Her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"
Specialized synonyms: Reinterpretation, Spin
Generic synonyms: Performance
Derivative terms: Interpret, Interpret, Interpret, Render, Render
Definition of Rendition
1. 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.
Definition of Rendition
1. Noun. (rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
2. Noun. (rare) The handing-over of a person or thing. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
3. Noun. Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
4. Noun. (context: legal chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict. (defdate from 18th c.) ¹
5. Noun. (context: legal chiefly US) The handing-over someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
6. Noun. An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
7. Noun. A given visual reproduction of something. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); ''especially'', for one jurisdiction to do so to another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rendition
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rendition
Literary usage of Rendition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"An effort made in 1817 to increase the efficiency of rendition was ...
State Interferences With rendition. As the years passed the difficulties increased. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"rendition—contd. 1861 If a Southern slave holder seizes his slave in Massachusetts
and proves his claim to him, the Personal liberty law offers not the ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Judgments: Including the Doctrine of Res Judicata by Henry Campbell Black (1891)
"THE rendition AND ENTRY OF JUDGMENTS. § 106. Distinction between rendition and
Entry. 107. Power and Duty of the Court to render Judgment. 108. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Judgments: Including the Doctrine of Res Judicata by Henry Campbell Black (1902)
"THE rendition AND ENTRY OF JUDGMENTS. 5 106. Distinction between rendition and
Entry. 107. Power and Duty of the Court to render Judgment. 10S. ..."
5. Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by Vincent Yardley Bowditch (1902)
"CHAPTER XIV THE rendition OF BURNS — LETTER FROM WHIT- TIER — THE " ANTI-MAN-HUNTING
LEAGUE ... BURNS'S rendition. After a rest of more than three years, ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"rendition OF JUDGMENT. See "From the rendition of Judgment" "Rendered," as used
by discriminating law writers in speaking of a judgment as being rendered, ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1845)
"To which Mr. Ogden rejoined, that the right of the party to a writ of error, was
controlled by the amount at the rendition of the judgment and could not be ..."
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