- a word derived from translation.
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
Mere retranslation of traditional terms�"Word of God." "redemption." "justification," "grace," "eternal life"�is not possible, says Niebuhr, without "the actualities" which people in another age knew intimately when they used these terms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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It was formerly maintained by some scholars that the extant Old English verses are not B�da's original, but a mere retranslation from his Latin prose version.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various