reddition

restoration; restitution: surrender

Noun

  1. 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: […]...
  2. 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.

Forms

redditions