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retranslation

  • a word derived from translation.
    translation
    noun
    the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.

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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

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