rendition
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English
Etymology
From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.
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Noun
rendition (countable and uncountable, plural renditions)
- An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
- 2011 April 12, Paul Lester, The Guardian:
- The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.
- 2017 June 25, “Vaccines”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- Yes. That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.
- A given visual reproduction of something.
- Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
- (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict.
- (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition.
- 2011 March 30, Ian Cobain, The Guardian:
- Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.
- (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).
- (now rare) The handing over of a person or thing.
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an interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work
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Verb
rendition (third-person singular simple present renditions, present participle renditioning, simple past and past participle renditioned)
- (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
- 2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 60:
- Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.
