renew
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
renew (renews, present participle renewing; past and past participle renewed)
- (transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. [from 14thc.]
- c.1596-98, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, scene i:
- In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.
- c.1596-98, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, scene i:
- (transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. [from 14thc.]
- (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, Bible (Tyndale), Romans 12.2:
- And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.
- 1526, William Tyndale, Bible (Tyndale), Romans 12.2:
- (now rare, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive. [15th-18thc.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, II.2.6.ii ↗:
- […] to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.
- 2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:
- Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.
- (transitive) To begin again; to recommence. [from 16thc.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book IV, canto VIII:
- Then gan he all this storie to renew, / And tell the course of his captivitie {{...}
- 1660, John Dryden, translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II ↗
- The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- (rare) To repeat. [from 17thc.]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- (transitive, intransitive) To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.
- I'd like to renew these three books. Did you know that you can renew online?
- See also Thesaurus:repair
- French: renouveler
- German: erneuern
- Portuguese: renovar
- Russian: обновля́ть
- Spanish: reanudar, renovar
- Portuguese: reiniciar
- Russian: возобновля́ть
- Spanish: reiniciar, recomenzar
- Russian: повторя́ть
- Spanish: renovar
- Spanish: renovar
- Spanish: renovar
- Russian: продлева́ть
- Spanish: renovar
renew (plural renews)
- Synonym of renewal#English|renewal
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