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verb

Renew v. t. (past & past part. reneved; pres. part. renewing)

To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to reestablish; to recreate; to rebuild. "In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Aeson."

Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.

To begin again; to recommence. "The last great age... renews its finished course."

To repeat; to go over again. "The birds-their notes renew."

(Theol.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Renew v. i. To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.

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Etymology of 'Renewing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Renewing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sir," cried Dorriforth—and leading her kindly to the door, as if to defend her from his malice, told her, "He would take another opportunity of renewing the subject." ...

— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald

... clearly the hold which Lincoln had acquired on the confidence and the affection of his immediate associates. Blair at once tendered his resignation: "I can not take leave of you," said he, "without renewing the expression of my gratitude for the uniform kindness which has marked your course with regard to myself."(7) That he was not perfunctory, that his great chief had acquired over him an ascendency ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... get home again, and spent the next few days renewing her acquaintance with the place, philosophizing with Gussie, Marie and Jud, and regaling family and servants alike with accounts of her long stay at the parsonage, for it seemed to her that she had been away three ...

— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown

... morning of our stay in Huferschingen, all the population had turned out at an early hour to see us start for the forest; and as the Ober-Forster had gone away to visit his parents in Bavaria, Dr. Krumm was appointed to superintend the operations of the day. And when everybody was busy renewing acquaintance with us, gathering the straying dogs, examining guns and cartridge-belts, and generally aiding in the profound commotion of our setting out, Dr. Krumm was found to be talking in a very friendly and familiar manner with ...

— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various

... statute creating it and continued till another statute should pass abolishing it. Its members were not specially nominated, as were the members of the older Quaestiones, but provision was made in the law constituting it for selecting from particular classes the judges who were to officiate, and for renewing them in conformity with definite rules. The offences of which it took cognisance were also expressly named and defined in this statute, and the new Quaestio had authority to try and sentence all persons in future whose acts should fall under the definitions of crime supplied by the law. It was therefore ...

— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

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