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traduction

American  
[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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Cloches poème de Edgar Poe traduction libre d'Émile Blémont avec quatre eaux-fortes de Henry Guérard   Paris Librairie de l'Eau-forte . . . 4to, original paper covers, uncut edges.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

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

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

If there be any gemman so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq.,

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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

From An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles by Charles Southwell

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

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 among those even that have not escaped the search.

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

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