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reddition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹəˈdɪʃən/

Etymology

From Latin redditio, from reddere (“to give back, to return”). Compare French reddition. See render and rendition.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) restoration; restitution: surrender
   • perfect obedience[…]partly by voluntary reddition and desire of protection, and partly by conqueſt 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
2. (countable, uncountable) explanation; representation
   • reddition, or application of the comparison [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

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