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Nothing renders one so adventurous as not being able to feel the place where one's pocket is situated.†
Chpt 1.2.6 *

renders = makes or causes to become

One really must behold the grimace of an honest man above the hempen collar now and then; that renders the thing honorable.†
Chpt 1.2.6

Moreover, every form, every deformity even, has there a sense which renders it inviolable.†
Chpt 1.5.2

"Master Jacques," replied Rym, "'tis because wine renders kings less cruel than does barley water."†
Chpt 2.10.5

It is that which renders me evil, do you see?†
Chpt 2.11.1

"What does this knave want with me?" said he, in stentorian tones, which rendered the entire hall attentive to this strange colloquy.†
Chpt 1.1.4

For two days his eminence had been exerting his utmost efforts to lick these Flemish bears into shape, and to render them a little more presentable to the public, and this freak was startling.†
Chpt 1.1.4

This strange accompaniment, which rendered it difficult to follow the piece, made Gringoire all the more indignant because he could not conceal from himself the fact that the interest was continually increasing, and that all his work required was a chance of being heard.†
Chpt 1.1.4

He had directed his course across the Pont aux Meuniers, in order to avoid the rabble on the Pont au Change, and the pennons of Jehan Fourbault; but the wheels of all the bishop's mills had splashed him as he passed, and his doublet was drenched; it seemed to him besides, that the failure of his piece had rendered him still more sensible to cold than usual.†
Chpt 1.2.3

Quasimodo was surrounded, seized, garroted; he roared, he foamed at the mouth, he bit; and had it been broad daylight, there is no doubt that his face alone, rendered more hideous by wrath, would have put the entire squad to flight.†
Chpt 1.2.4

The gypsy gracefully raised herself upright upon the officer's saddle, placed both hands upon the young man's shoulders, and gazed fixedly at him for several seconds, as though enchanted with his good looks and with the aid which he had just rendered her.†
Chpt 1.2.4

Gringoire tried to slip in some excuse between these curt words, which wrath rendered more and more jerky.†
Chpt 1.2.6 *

It was evident that the young girl was alluding to the slight assistance which he had rendered her in the critical situation in which she had found herself two hours previously.†
Chpt 1.2.7

And when the glance passed these bridges, whose roofs were visibly green, rendered mouldy before their time by the vapors from the water, if it was directed to the left, towards the University, the first edifice which struck it was a large, low sheaf of towers, the Petit-Chàtelet, whose yawning gate devoured the end of the Petit-Pont.†
Chpt 1.3.2

He rendered clear and familiar to himself that vast and tumultuous period of civil law and canon law in conflict and at strife with each other, in the chaos of the Middle Ages,—a period which Bishop Theodore opens in 618, and which Pope Gregory closes in 1227.†
Chpt 1.4.2

Let us add that his deafness rendered him to some extent dumb.†
Chpt 1.4.3

The second effect of his misfortune was to render him malicious.†
Chpt 1.4.3

This justice must, however be rendered to him.†
Chpt 1.4.3

What he loved above all else in the maternal edifice, that which aroused his soul, and made it open its poor wings, which it kept so miserably folded in its cavern, that which sometimes rendered him even happy, was the bells.†
Chpt 1.4.3

Can anything sweeter be imagined than rendering judgments and decisions, as Messire Robert d'Estouteville daily did in the Grand Châtelet, under the large and flattened arches of Philip Augustus?†
Chpt 1.6.1 *

Here, assuredly, is more than sufficient to render a life happy and illustrious, and to deserve some day a notable page in that interesting history of the provosts of Paris, where one learns that Oudard de Villeneuve had a house in the Rue des Boucheries, that Guillaume de Hangest purchased the great and the little Savoy, that Guillaume Thiboust gave the nuns of Sainte-Geneviève his houses in the Rue Clopin, that Hugues Aubriot lived in the Hôtel du Pore-Epic, and other domestic facts.†
Chpt 1.6.1

Quasimodo turned round, shrugging his hump with disdain, while Master Florian, equally astonished, and supposing that the laughter of the spectators had been provoked by some irreverent reply from the accused, rendered visible to him by that shrug of the shoulders, apostrophized him indignantly,— "You have uttered a reply, knave, which deserves the halter.†
Chpt 1.6.1

All resistance had been rendered impossible to him by what was then called, in the style of the criminal chancellery, "the vehemence and firmness of the bonds" which means that the thongs and chains probably cut into his flesh; moreover, it is a tradition of jail and wardens, which has not been lost, and which the handcuffs still preciously preserve among us, a civilized, gentle, humane people (the galleys and the guillotine in parentheses).†
Chpt 1.6.4

The joy at seeing him appear thus in the pillory had been universal; and the harsh punishment which he had just suffered, and the pitiful condition in which it had left him, far from softening the populace had rendered its hatred more malicious by arming it with a touch of mirth.†
Chpt 1.6.4

Here, as in the Grand Hall, the women rendered themselves particularly prominent.†
Chpt 1.6.4

For that sort of woman was feared; which rendered them sacred.†
Chpt 1.6.5

look!" exclaimed her lively companions; and they all ran to the edge of the balcony, while Fleur-de-Lys, rendered thoughtful by the coldness of her betrothed, followed them slowly, and the latter, relieved by this incident, which put an end to an embarrassing conversation, retreated to the farther end of the room, with the satisfied air of a soldier released from duty.†
Chpt 2.7.1

"Hence," continued the priest, "one wretched thought is sufficient to render a man weak and beside himself!†
Chpt 2.7.4

This Greek lesson had rendered him thoughtful.†
Chpt 2.7.4

But fasting, prayer, study, the mortifications of the cloister, rendered my soul mistress of my body once more, and then I avoided women.†
Chpt 2.8.4

When the boatman had taken his departure, he remained standing stupidly on the strand, staring straight before him and perceiving objects only through magnifying oscillations which rendered everything a sort of phantasmagoria to him.†
Chpt 2.9.1

Between these two white expanses, the left bank of the Seine, on which his eyes were fixed, projected its gloomy mass and, rendered ever thinner and thinner by perspective, it plunged into the gloom of the horizon like a black spire.†
Chpt 2.9.1

You have forgotten a wretch who tried to abduct you one night, a wretch to whom you rendered succor on the following day on their infamous pillory.†
Chpt 2.9.3

the darkness rendered the deaf man blind.†
Chpt 2.9.6

Nevertheless, the naivete, the sweetness of the faces, the gayety of the attitudes and draperies, and that inexplicable charm which is mingled with all the defects, render the little figures very diverting and delicate, perchance, even too much so.†
Chpt 2.10.1

tell me who preserved for you that life which you render so charming to yourself?†
Chpt 2.10.1

Then, rendered young by fury, he began to walk up and down with long strides.†
Chpt 2.10.5

You will render me an account of it.†
Chpt 2.10.5

The mother, perceiving an entrance effected, fell down in front of the opening, barricading the breach with her body, beating the pavement with her head, and shrieking with a voice rendered so hoarse by fatigue that it was hardly audible,— "Help!†
Chpt 2.11.1

The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places.†
Chpt 2.11.4

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(1) (render as in: rendered service or a verdict)
to give or supply something
(2) (render as in: rendered her unconscious)
to make or cause to become
(3) (render as in: rendered interpretation)
to portray or create something in a particular way; or to interpret, translate, or extract from
The exact meaning of this sense of render depends upon its context. For example:
- "Each artist will render a different interpretation when painting a portrait." -- create in a particular way
- "A Supreme Court judge may render his own interpretation of the Constitution." -- interpret in a particular way
- "The computer you are using, rendered this page from software instructions." -- created through interpretation
- "A graph is rendered from the underlying data." -- made
- "Fat can be rendered (extracted) by cooking meat slowly." -- extracted from
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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