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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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She had, in truth, been a sore impediment with the anti-renters; more especially in carrying out that part of their schemes which is connected with traduction, and its legitimate offspring, prejudice.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

E. Talbot, "Oeuvres completes de Xenophon," traduction, ii.

From The Sportsman by Henry Graham Dakyns

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

And that, in the case of generation, meant a return to traduction.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard

Some will have our souls mortal, some immortal; some bring them into the body by Infusion, some by traduction.

From Superstition Unveiled by Charles Southwell

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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