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The revival of learning and culture
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renascence
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rebirth; state of being reborn," 1727, from renascent + -ence . As a native alternative to The Renaissance , first used in 1869 by Matthew Arnold. Related: Renascency (1660s).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Renascence may refer to: Renascence (comics) or Wind Dancer, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe "Renascence" (poem) , a 1912 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence (journal) , an academic journal
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the revival of learning and culture [syn: rebirth , Renaissance ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) A new beginning or rebirth; regeneration. 2 renewal, revival. 3 (context now rare English) The Renaissance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renascence \Re*nas"cence\ (r?-n?s"sens), n. [See Renascent , and cf. Renaissance .] The state of being renascent. Read the Ph[oe]nix, and see how the single image of renascence is varied. --Coleridge. Same as Renaissance . The Renascence . . . which in ...
Usage examples of renascence.
Vincent Millay Contents: Renascence All I could see from where I stood Interim The room is full of you!
Kirth was a small town and the star-eel industry was still in its embryonic stage, and he post-programs the whale to dive the moment he departs in the lifeboat and to resurface one Renascence month later at a corresponding point in space.
In the foreground, hogging most of the screen, Renascence turns imperceptibly on its axis, its dayside green-gold, and tinged with blue.
How can you possibly own a house in the country and two limousines when you just this minute set foot on Renascence for the first time?
As you probably know, on Renascence a man of sufficient means and with no family of his own can adopt a family, if it has no objections, and assume an avuncular status.
It so happens that I have a house in the country down below and that I happen to own stock in half the major corporations on Renascence and.
This is but the accomplishment of an ideal toward which the western world has been tending since it emerged from the Dark Ages into the Renascence and since it began to suspect that the Holy Roman Empire was only the empty shadow of a disestablished realm.
Italian renascence, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, rise, by unanimous consent, far above all others.
A similar ordeal was undergone by the great painters of the Italian Renascence, who tried their hands, almost all of them, on the Madonna with the Holy Child, on the Descent from the Cross, and on every other of the score of stock subjects then in favor for the appropriate decoration of altar and alcove and dome.
The consequent renascence and renewed growth of the British Commonwealth of Nations, the shaping of its councils into a truly work!
The revival of human vitality in the Seventies involved not merely a renascence but a restoration.
Were it made now publicly and boldly, there can be no doubt that the decision would mean a renascence of monarchy, a considerable outbreak of royalist enthusiasm in the Empire.
If change there must be, I would wish a renascence of simplicity, a re-dedication to Regularity.
Many cartographers of the renascence, whose charts indeed we cannot read unless we reverse them, must have followed Asiatic cartographical methods, and this perhaps through copying local charts obtained in the countries visited by them.