reddition
restoration; restitution: surrender
Noun
- 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: […]...
- 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...
Origin
From Latin redditio, from reddere (“to give back, to return”). Compare French reddition. See render and rendition.