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traduction

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[truh-duhk-shuhn] / trəˈdək ʃən /

noun

  • traductions
    plural
  1. the act of translating text from one language to another.

  2. the act of traducing.

  3. the transmission of something by inheritance.

  4. Theology. the passing on of one's soul or sins to one's posterity.


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Under cover of this traduction of the Muse I served, I kept going over and over the details of Louise Harman's plan, as the girl beside me had outlined it, bending above the smudgy sketch-book.

From The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

The Talmudists say, "All souls were made during the six days of creation; and therefore generation is not by traduction, but by infusion of a soul into body."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

The distinction of this statement from that of traduction is the difference between evolution from one original germ or stock and actual production of new beings.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

Jonson, Ben: poetic rank, 281; a phrase, 300; traduction, 393.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He then returned to Constantinople, and was appointed to a post in the bureau de traduction of the ministry for foreign affairs.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The bibliographer Barbier has absolutely specified sixty in a separate dissertation, soixante traductions among those even that have not escaped the search.

From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by Thomas De Quincey

The repetitions and traductions in speech and the reports and hauntings of sounds in music are the very same things.

From Valerius Terminus; of the interpretation of nature by Francis Bacon

The bibliographer, Barbier, has absolutely specified sixty in a separate dissertation, soixante traductions, amongst those even that have not escaped the search.

From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

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