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Rendition

noun

A performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.. Synonym: rendering.

An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious. Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendering. "He annoyed us with his interpreting of parables" , "Often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"

Handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed.

The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance. Synonyms: interpretation, rendering.

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"Rendition" Quotes from Famous Books

... and palpitatingly. It had been two weeks since he had remonstrated with Colette for the surprisingly sudden announcement, made in seeming seriousness, that she was going to study opera with a view to going on the stage. The fact that she had a light, sweet soprano adapted only to the rendition of drawing-room ballads did not lessen in his eyes the probability of her carrying ...

— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

... pictures, books, jewelry, lace, china—the fleece (sometimes the flesh still sticking to it) left on the brambles by the driven herd. If there should some day be a trump of resurrection for defunct fortunes, those shops would be emptied in the same twinkling of the eye allowed to tombs for their rendition of property. ...

— Balcony Stories • Grace E. King

Words linked to "Rendition" : rendering, render, broad interpretation, performance, explanation, reinterpretation, persecution, judicial activism, interpreting, public presentation, spin