retranslation
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a word derived from
translation.
translationnounthe rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
Example Sentences
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“I think of it as a retranslation of speech patterns, like you find with MCs and in hip-hop.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2017
For weeks, I fielded calls from anxious relatives, inventing excuse after excuse as to why I had still not produced a groundbreaking retranslation of “War and Peace.”
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2014
Anyone invoking the Bible these days is always well advised to double-check his quotation; in the current flurry of Biblical revision and retranslation, it might have suddenly become archaic or incorrect.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus the home influence is spreading out toward the work-place and the play-centre—truly a retranslation of family service in terms of the public life.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
The pure idea, let us say, is translated into language by the literary composer; who is to be responsible for the retranslation of the language into idea?
From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh