renditionn.

Brit.

/rɛnˈdɪʃn/, U.S.

/rɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rendition.

Etymology: < French †rendition action of giving, surrender, attribution, action of giving a judgement, presentation of accounts (all 15th cent. in Middle French), alteration of reddition reddition n. after rendre render v.; the sense development in English is largely after render v. Compare Spanish rendición (14th cent.), Portuguese rendição (1381 as rendiçom ). Compare earlier reddition n., and also rendering n., render n.¹, rent n.¹

I. Senses relating to giving or delivering.

a. The surrender of a town, garrison, territory, etc. Also figurative. Now historical and rare.Common in 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] > surrender

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appointmenta1513

composition1523

dedition1523

rendering1523

surrender?a1525

fall1535

render1548

rendry1600

rendition1601

capitulation1604

recapitulation1641

reddition1641

surrendering1648

capitulating1734

1601 Queen Elizabeth I in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 200 We receiued (with much contentment) the newes of the rendition of Kinsale.

1651 J. Cook Monarchy no Creature of Gods Making sig. g^v The rendition of Lymericke cost him deere.

1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) v. 54 Fear..treats with the tempter about terms of rendition.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 703 After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces, he lived for some time in the Middle Temple.

1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 169 To freighten..that puissant garrison to a rendition.

1755 Parl. Hist. Eng. XIV. 6 Several Letters are next entered in the Journals, concerning the Rendition of Carlisle.

1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther i Not in right of conquest, or rendition.

1894 Athenæum 26 May 678/1 He then discusses..the rendition of Mysore.

2007 S. Kelsey in J. McElligott & D. L. Smith Royalists & Royalism x. 209 A sword of state, a mace and a seal to replace those Ormond had surrendered to the parliament at his rendition of Dublin back in 1647.

b. gen. The action of giving up a possession to someone else, or of surrendering something, esp. a person, to the power or influence of another. Also: an instance of this. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > handing over or giving up to another > of a person

tradition1483

rendition1649

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 38 His rendition afterward to the Scotch Army.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxi. 255 Men are to the soveraignties of love fear and advantage, such Vassals; that they make rendition of their integrity to them, as readily as the World did to Alexander.

1670 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 212 Their Answer was, That there was no need of distinguishing the Renditions of the Colony.

1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 267 Where the Throne becomes empty, as it is by the Rendition of those that before sate in it.

1702 Compar. between Two Stages iv. 116 The rendition she makes of her self to him, is the very condition of Rodomond's Life, who was to be still her private Minion.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Sept. Mr. Seward can scarcely place any obstacles in the way of the rendition of this man.

1874 J. Lawrence Angel Voices from Spirit World 165 From such a condition, how can they escape, we ask, but by rendition of every claim to truthfulness..of a doctrine..quite unsuited to the wants of man.

1973 Observer 12 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 26/1 Opposing the India Bill and everything associated with the rendition of power in India.

1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Dec. 1438/1 The rendition to Germany of the mandate over South-West Africa was deemed to be out of the question.

†2. The action of giving back or returning something; return, restoration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > [noun]

restitutiona1325

restoringa1382

restorance1389

restaurancea1400

restorec1400

reddition1449

relivery1463

restorementa1500

restorative?c1500

redeliverya1513

rendering1523

return1534

redeliverance1535

rembursement1579

retribution1583

restoration1608

restoral1611

repetition1649

returnal1651

rendition1652

regift1658

retradition1875

kickback1932

1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 148 She lost her speech, which love soon made rendition of unto her.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 46 They have assigned unto it [sc. memory] three operations, viz. Reception, Retention, and Rendition.

1702 J. Lead Living Funeral Testimony 65 From whence you All receive, must give All back In your Divine Reflex Rendition-Act.

a. Law (chiefly U.S.). The extradition of a fugitive who has fled to another jurisdiction.

ΚΠ

1846 C. Egan Law of Extradition 5 The case of rendition must be one where the act done is equally a crime in both states.

1860 S. Eliot in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 442/2 The rendition of fugitive slaves by the Northern States.

1887 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 119 414 The Court of Appeals of New York..decided that an act..authorizing the rendition to foreign States of fugitives from justice was in conflict with the Constitution of the United States.

1934 Boston Univ. Law Rev. 14 642 The rendition proceedings are..slow, cumbersome, and costly in the United States.

1964 Wash. Univ. Law Q. 355 Even if the fugitive were captured, the demanding state could have him returned only by invoking the interstate rendition procedure provided by federal statute.

2002 M. Fleeman If I Die 235 Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn signed a warrant to return Margaret Rudin. It was delivered to Massachusetts authorities, but Margaret got a delay in her rendition.

b. Originally U.S. = extraordinary rendition n. at extraordinary adj., adv., and n. Additions.

ΚΠ

1980 Virginia Jrnl. Internat. Law 20 777 (note) ‘Rendition’ encompasses both extradition and irregular recovery of fugitives.

1989 Washington Post 4 Nov. a1/6 Anticipating the possibility of such action, the Justice Department, he [sc. CIA director William Webster] said, has created a new term, ‘rendition’, to describe the act of capturing and bringing back to the United States a criminal suspect.

2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 2 June 27/2 The CIA has helped move dozens of detainees not only to Jordan but also to Egypt, Morocco, and even Syria. Dubbed ‘renditions’, the transfers have stirred concern by critics over those nations' records for torture.

2006 New Statesman 135 1 Despite admitting..that the CIA carries out renditions, the US has yet to own up to a single specific case of transferring a prisoner to foreign custody.

†4. U.S. In silk production: the quantity of silkworm cocoons required to produce a pound of reeled silk; (also) the quantity of cocoons raised from a given quantity of eggs. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1887 Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1886 547 The second week's work in the Washington filature on Osage Orange cocoons gave a rendition of 3.69.

1890 Rep. Secretary Agric. 270 in Executive Documents House of Representatives (1891) XVII There is no reason why any silk raiser can not obtain a rendition of 80 pounds of fresh cocoons per ounce.

II. Senses relating to expression.

5. Translation from one language to another; (also occasionally more widely) the rendering of one form of language into another, as transliteration, phonetic respelling, etc. Now chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun]

remeninga1382

translatinga1382

translationa1382

interpretation1382

interpretingc1384

reducing?a1425

traductiona1533

conversion1586

reddition1609

renderinga1653

rendition1653

transposition1653

transfusion1700

gloss1756

reduction1826

transc1877

machine-aided translation1966

1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 376 If those Criticks think this no right rendition, let them do the world that right as to take upon them to correct those Errata's in the Lexicons that are extant, and to turn Lexicographers themselves.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed iii. 327 It is..acknowledged that the most ancient Interpreters were divided in their renditions.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 27 The Jews..charge Paul as a perverter of the prophet's meaning, in a false rendition of the sense of the place.

1858 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1859) 360 The closest possible rendition of the meaning of the original text of the Scriptures into English.

1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (ed. 13) 275 I will not omit mention of Calverley's complete rendition of Theocritus.

1949 Jrnl. Philos. 46 718 Miss Freeman's rendition, compared with that of Burnet, shows a keener sensitiveness to Heraclitus's words and a more determined endeavor to come as close to the Greek text as possible.

1977 M. M. Bravmann Stud. in Semitic Philol. ii. 96 In his phonetic rendition of the Arabic texts, the ‘auxiliary vowel’..taking the place of the original a-vowel is regularly expressed by i.

2001 Hartford Courant 24 Nov. (New Haven County/Shoreline ed.) d4/1 At last count, there are some 70 English renditions of the Bible, in whole or in part. The latest is the ESV (English Standard Version) from Crossway.

6. Law (chiefly U.S.). The action of formally delivering a judgment or verdict.

ΚΠ

1741 tr. J. Lilly Mod. Entries (ed. 2) 11 After the rendition of the judgment aforesaid..the said James Fuller, for the reversing of the judgment aforesaid, prosecuted..a certain writ.

1802 Ann. 7th Congr. 1 Sess. 173 You might see one judge beginning a cause..and a different one entirely making the rendition of judgment.

1858 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Aug. 2/1 On the rendition of the verdict the large audience present manifested enthusiastic approbation.

1906 Indian Laws & Treaties III. 240 Upon the rendition of such judgment..the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed [etc.].

1956 R. E. Marrow Northern Methodism & Reconstruction iii. 85 Justice Samuel Nelson's rendition of the judgment was latitudinarian enough to leave excuse for debate.

1990 Law & Contemp. Probl. 53 95 (note) It may permit the accused person to be absent on a day of public trial, but that does not extend to the rendition of judgment.

2007 Florida Bar Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 12 The appeal time runs from the rendition of the judgment in a benchtrial or rendition of the verdict in a jury trial.

7. Originally U.S. A performance or interpretation of something, esp. a dramatic role or a piece of music.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun]

rehearsalc1405

rehearse1429

repetition1579

spouting1581

hersall1590

recitation1623

absolutiona1637

rendition1851

rep1858

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun]

modulationa1398

timing?1578

tuning1609

musicking1703

melodizing1786

rendering1840

rendition1851

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > performing

performance?1611

rendition1851

spieling1859

1851 Spirit of Times 13 Dec. 516/1 Mr. L. is a ripe Shaksperian scholar, and his rendition of this fine character will doubtless be of a high order.

1877 H. H. Furness in W. Shakespeare Hamlet (New Variorum ed.) Pref. 14 In their rendition of Hamlet by the Messrs. Devrient.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur (1887) 266 When he spoke, the account seemed to have rendition from both of them jointly.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 231 Ben Dollard does sing that ballad touchingly. Masterly rendition.

1975 Radio Times 3 Apr. 17/1 It's comedian Roy Hudd, strumming the strings..with a rendition of ‘Auntie Maggie's Remedy’.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 May ii. 24/4 ‘American Idol’ has devoted an entire evening to cluelessly sung renditions of British Invasion hits.

8. Visual representation or reproduction; an example of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > [noun]

picture?a1439

representingc1443

portraiturea1450

refigurationc1475

effigiation?1533

figuring1534

representation1579

picturing1585

representmentc1590

presentationa1616

portrayment?1650

iconism1656

importraiture1834

portrayal1836

rendition1959

1959 E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. Speech xiii. 89 I chose a sustained sound... The sketch of Fig. 11 is a complete and exact spectrographic rendition of it.

1978 Amateur Photographer 2 Aug. 109/2 A polarising filter may be used to darken skies without affecting the rendition of foreground detail.

1982 Byte Apr. 264/2 ‘What you see is what you get’ (or wysiwyg) refers to the situation in which the display screen portrays an accurate rendition of the printed page.

1989 J. Updike Just Looking 76 Modigliani..of modern artists adhered most closely to the classic and Renaissance ideal of design extracted from an attentive rendition of the real.

2001 Art Room Catal. Autumn 59/2 Printed with a faithful rendition of the doors into the Room de Luxe of Mackintosh's Willow Tea Rooms, 1903, this phenomenally elegant bed linen creates an opportunity to completely reinvent a bedroom with fin-de-siècle chic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rendition
释义	renditionn. Brit. /rɛnˈdɪʃn/, U.S. /rɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rendition. Etymology: < French †rendition action of giving, surrender, attribution, action of giving a judgement, presentation of accounts (all 15th cent. in Middle French), alteration of reddition reddition n. after rendre render v.; the sense development in English is largely after render v. Compare Spanish rendición (14th cent.), Portuguese rendição (1381 as rendiçom ). Compare earlier reddition n., and also rendering n., render n.¹, rent n.¹ I. Senses relating to giving or delivering. 1. a. The surrender of a town, garrison, territory, etc. Also figurative. Now historical and rare.Common in 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] > surrender deliverancea1387 appointmenta1513 composition1523 dedition1523 rendering1523 surrender?a1525 fall1535 render1548 rendry1600 rendition1601 capitulation1604 recapitulation1641 reddition1641 surrendering1648 capitulating1734 1601 Queen Elizabeth I in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 200 We receiued (with much contentment) the newes of the rendition of Kinsale. 1651 J. Cook Monarchy no Creature of Gods Making sig. g^v The rendition of Lymericke cost him deere. 1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) v. 54 Fear..treats with the tempter about terms of rendition. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 703 After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces, he lived for some time in the Middle Temple. 1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 169 To freighten..that puissant garrison to a rendition. 1755 Parl. Hist. Eng. XIV. 6 Several Letters are next entered in the Journals, concerning the Rendition of Carlisle. 1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther i Not in right of conquest, or rendition. 1894 Athenæum 26 May 678/1 He then discusses..the rendition of Mysore. 2007 S. Kelsey in J. McElligott & D. L. Smith Royalists & Royalism x. 209 A sword of state, a mace and a seal to replace those Ormond had surrendered to the parliament at his rendition of Dublin back in 1647. b. gen. The action of giving up a possession to someone else, or of surrendering something, esp. a person, to the power or influence of another. Also: an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > handing over or giving up to another > of a person tradition1483 rendition1649 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 38 His rendition afterward to the Scotch Army. 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxi. 255 Men are to the soveraignties of love fear and advantage, such Vassals; that they make rendition of their integrity to them, as readily as the World did to Alexander. 1670 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 212 Their Answer was, That there was no need of distinguishing the Renditions of the Colony. 1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 267 Where the Throne becomes empty, as it is by the Rendition of those that before sate in it. 1702 Compar. between Two Stages iv. 116 The rendition she makes of her self to him, is the very condition of Rodomond's Life, who was to be still her private Minion. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Sept. Mr. Seward can scarcely place any obstacles in the way of the rendition of this man. 1874 J. Lawrence Angel Voices from Spirit World 165 From such a condition, how can they escape, we ask, but by rendition of every claim to truthfulness..of a doctrine..quite unsuited to the wants of man. 1973 Observer 12 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 26/1 Opposing the India Bill and everything associated with the rendition of power in India. 1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Dec. 1438/1 The rendition to Germany of the mandate over South-West Africa was deemed to be out of the question. †2. The action of giving back or returning something; return, restoration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > [noun] restitutiona1325 restoringa1382 restorance1389 restaurancea1400 restorec1400 reddition1449 relivery1463 restorementa1500 restorative?c1500 redeliverya1513 rendering1523 return1534 redeliverance1535 rembursement1579 retribution1583 restoration1608 restoral1611 repetition1649 returnal1651 rendition1652 regift1658 retradition1875 kickback1932 1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 148 She lost her speech, which love soon made rendition of unto her. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 46 They have assigned unto it [sc. memory] three operations, viz. Reception, Retention, and Rendition. 1702 J. Lead Living Funeral Testimony 65 From whence you All receive, must give All back In your Divine Reflex Rendition-Act. 3. a. Law (chiefly U.S.). The extradition of a fugitive who has fled to another jurisdiction. ΚΠ 1846 C. Egan Law of Extradition 5 The case of rendition must be one where the act done is equally a crime in both states. 1860 S. Eliot in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 442/2 The rendition of fugitive slaves by the Northern States. 1887 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 119 414 The Court of Appeals of New York..decided that an act..authorizing the rendition to foreign States of fugitives from justice was in conflict with the Constitution of the United States. 1934 Boston Univ. Law Rev. 14 642 The rendition proceedings are..slow, cumbersome, and costly in the United States. 1964 Wash. Univ. Law Q. 355 Even if the fugitive were captured, the demanding state could have him returned only by invoking the interstate rendition procedure provided by federal statute. 2002 M. Fleeman If I Die 235 Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn signed a warrant to return Margaret Rudin. It was delivered to Massachusetts authorities, but Margaret got a delay in her rendition. b. Originally U.S. = extraordinary rendition n. at extraordinary adj., adv., and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1980 Virginia Jrnl. Internat. Law 20 777 (note) ‘Rendition’ encompasses both extradition and irregular recovery of fugitives. 1989 Washington Post 4 Nov. a1/6 Anticipating the possibility of such action, the Justice Department, he [sc. CIA director William Webster] said, has created a new term, ‘rendition’, to describe the act of capturing and bringing back to the United States a criminal suspect. 2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 2 June 27/2 The CIA has helped move dozens of detainees not only to Jordan but also to Egypt, Morocco, and even Syria. Dubbed ‘renditions’, the transfers have stirred concern by critics over those nations' records for torture. 2006 New Statesman 135 1 Despite admitting..that the CIA carries out renditions, the US has yet to own up to a single specific case of transferring a prisoner to foreign custody. †4. U.S. In silk production: the quantity of silkworm cocoons required to produce a pound of reeled silk; (also) the quantity of cocoons raised from a given quantity of eggs. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1887 Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1886 547 The second week's work in the Washington filature on Osage Orange cocoons gave a rendition of 3.69. 1890 Rep. Secretary Agric. 270 in Executive Documents House of Representatives (1891) XVII There is no reason why any silk raiser can not obtain a rendition of 80 pounds of fresh cocoons per ounce. II. Senses relating to expression. 5. Translation from one language to another; (also occasionally more widely) the rendering of one form of language into another, as transliteration, phonetic respelling, etc. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] remeninga1382 translatinga1382 translationa1382 interpretation1382 interpretingc1384 reducing?a1425 traductiona1533 conversion1586 reddition1609 renderinga1653 rendition1653 transposition1653 transfusion1700 gloss1756 reduction1826 transc1877 machine-aided translation1966 1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 376 If those Criticks think this no right rendition, let them do the world that right as to take upon them to correct those Errata's in the Lexicons that are extant, and to turn Lexicographers themselves. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed iii. 327 It is..acknowledged that the most ancient Interpreters were divided in their renditions. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 27 The Jews..charge Paul as a perverter of the prophet's meaning, in a false rendition of the sense of the place. 1858 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1859) 360 The closest possible rendition of the meaning of the original text of the Scriptures into English. 1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (ed. 13) 275 I will not omit mention of Calverley's complete rendition of Theocritus. 1949 Jrnl. Philos. 46 718 Miss Freeman's rendition, compared with that of Burnet, shows a keener sensitiveness to Heraclitus's words and a more determined endeavor to come as close to the Greek text as possible. 1977 M. M. Bravmann Stud. in Semitic Philol. ii. 96 In his phonetic rendition of the Arabic texts, the ‘auxiliary vowel’..taking the place of the original a-vowel is regularly expressed by i. 2001 Hartford Courant 24 Nov. (New Haven County/Shoreline ed.) d4/1 At last count, there are some 70 English renditions of the Bible, in whole or in part. The latest is the ESV (English Standard Version) from Crossway. 6. Law (chiefly U.S.). The action of formally delivering a judgment or verdict. ΚΠ 1741 tr. J. Lilly Mod. Entries (ed. 2) 11 After the rendition of the judgment aforesaid..the said James Fuller, for the reversing of the judgment aforesaid, prosecuted..a certain writ. 1802 Ann. 7th Congr. 1 Sess. 173 You might see one judge beginning a cause..and a different one entirely making the rendition of judgment. 1858 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Aug. 2/1 On the rendition of the verdict the large audience present manifested enthusiastic approbation. 1906 Indian Laws & Treaties III. 240 Upon the rendition of such judgment..the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed [etc.]. 1956 R. E. Marrow Northern Methodism & Reconstruction iii. 85 Justice Samuel Nelson's rendition of the judgment was latitudinarian enough to leave excuse for debate. 1990 Law & Contemp. Probl. 53 95 (note) It may permit the accused person to be absent on a day of public trial, but that does not extend to the rendition of judgment. 2007 Florida Bar Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 12 The appeal time runs from the rendition of the judgment in a benchtrial or rendition of the verdict in a jury trial. 7. Originally U.S. A performance or interpretation of something, esp. a dramatic role or a piece of music. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] rehearsalc1405 rehearse1429 repetition1579 spouting1581 hersall1590 recitation1623 absolutiona1637 rendition1851 rep1858 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] modulationa1398 timing?1578 tuning1609 musicking1703 melodizing1786 rendering1840 rendition1851 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > performing performance?1611 rendition1851 spieling1859 1851 Spirit of Times 13 Dec. 516/1 Mr. L. is a ripe Shaksperian scholar, and his rendition of this fine character will doubtless be of a high order. 1877 H. H. Furness in W. Shakespeare Hamlet (New Variorum ed.) Pref. 14 In their rendition of Hamlet by the Messrs. Devrient. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur (1887) 266 When he spoke, the account seemed to have rendition from both of them jointly. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 231 Ben Dollard does sing that ballad touchingly. Masterly rendition. 1975 Radio Times 3 Apr. 17/1 It's comedian Roy Hudd, strumming the strings..with a rendition of ‘Auntie Maggie's Remedy’. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 May ii. 24/4 ‘American Idol’ has devoted an entire evening to cluelessly sung renditions of British Invasion hits. 8. Visual representation or reproduction; an example of this. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] picture?a1439 representingc1443 portraiturea1450 refigurationc1475 effigiation?1533 figuring1534 representation1579 picturing1585 representmentc1590 presentationa1616 portrayment?1650 iconism1656 importraiture1834 portrayal1836 rendition1959 1959 E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. Speech xiii. 89 I chose a sustained sound... The sketch of Fig. 11 is a complete and exact spectrographic rendition of it. 1978 Amateur Photographer 2 Aug. 109/2 A polarising filter may be used to darken skies without affecting the rendition of foreground detail. 1982 Byte Apr. 264/2 ‘What you see is what you get’ (or wysiwyg) refers to the situation in which the display screen portrays an accurate rendition of the printed page. 1989 J. Updike Just Looking 76 Modigliani..of modern artists adhered most closely to the classic and Renaissance ideal of design extracted from an attentive rendition of the real. 2001 Art Room Catal. Autumn 59/2 Printed with a faithful rendition of the doors into the Room de Luxe of Mackintosh's Willow Tea Rooms, 1903, this phenomenally elegant bed linen creates an opportunity to completely reinvent a bedroom with fin-de-siècle chic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601
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