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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anew
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
begin
▪ She was fresher now, more confident; confident enough to scrap the entire chapter and begin anew.
▪ And then silence again and the whole sequence begins anew.
▪ When this landmass begins to warm up that section of the mantle, the cycle begins anew.
▪ So now the rebuilding begins anew.
▪ This is when her hysterical symptoms began anew.
start
▪ We should at least be able to start anew with some element of hope.
▪ If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
▪ The sun floods in, young plants shoot upwards and the struggle starts anew as the winners block light from their inferiors.
▪ Stark had taken me to a place where I could shed my former selves and start anew.
▪ The reaction would start anew, but this time with no way to remove its heat.
▪ Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
▪ But if the Cubs want to start anew, they should start anew.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
start afresh/anew
▪ She moved to Texas to start anew after the divorce.
▪ Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.
▪ He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh.
▪ I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
▪ If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
▪ Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
▪ Stark had taken me to a place where I could shed my former selves and start anew.
▪ We're going to start afresh.
▪ We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fighting began anew on May 15.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And then silence again and the whole sequence begins anew.
▪ But there are plenty of things that threaten anew to knock Clinton off his presidential perch.
▪ Deng, who had been urging Kim for years to follow his reformist example, encouraged him anew.
▪ I hope we can create places where that thought will make its intricate knot anew.
▪ It also demands that we investigate anew how our lawyers are selected, and how they are trained to fight for us.
▪ It was decided to keep the marvellous facades of the School of Music and build anew within them.
▪ The errors of constructivist rationalism stem from the belief that reason alone enables human beings to construct society anew.
▪ We shall return to the Rhineland and start our lives anew - please do not try to find us.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anew

Anew \A*new"\, adv. [Pref. a- + new.] Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anew

c.1300, a neue, from Old English of-niowe; see a- (1) + new. One-word form dominant from c.1400.

Wiktionary
anew

adv. (context literary poetic or formal English) again, once more

WordNet
anew

adv. again but in a new or different way; "start afresh"; "wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in a fresh place" [syn: afresh]

Usage examples of "anew".

We do not consider that apperception spares us the trouble of examining ever anew and in small detail all the objects and phenomena that present themselves to us, so as to get their meaning, or that it thus prevents our mental power from scattering and from being worn out with wearisome, fruitless detail labors.

NO other doctrine has exerted so extensive, controlling, and permanent an influence upon mankind as that of the metempsychosis, the notion that when the soul leaves the body it is born anew in another body, its rank, character, circumstances, and experience in each successive existence depending on its qualities, deeds, and attainments in its preceding lives.

If the sensuous impressions experienced anew in each case by each human being, and the original movements, were sufficient without the development of the cerebral convolutions and of the gray cortex, then these microcephalous beings, upon whom the same impressions operated as upon other new-born children, must have had better brains and must have learned more.

The ground shook anew, and Mirt disappeared down a sliding mound of rubble as stones broke free from buildings all around and plunged to the streets.

And noting anew the hush about me-- a hush in which I fancied many pairs of ears listened--I was glad.

The outworn creeds again believed, And the same round anew began, Which the weary world yet ever ran.

Lawyer Paravant rattled his ear anew, that the critical moment might find it open and receptive.

In part, the proverb is parthenogenic, since one stops counting after three and begins anew, yet there may be a reason why so many cultures have held the number sacred.

And you that never left come back anew, Joan Baez, Bob Kaufmann, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gordon Lish, Gordon Fraser, Gregory Corso, Ira Sandperl, Fritz Perls, swine pearls, even you black bus Charlie Manson asshole.

When the parliament met after the prorogation, they entered anew upon the business of supply, and granted the king an additional duty, during eight years, of twelve pounds on each tun of Spanish wine imported, eight on each tun of French.

Not till her breath of being could aspire Anew, this loved and scourged of Angels found Our common brotherhood in sight and sound: When mellow rang the name Napoleon, And dim aloft her young Angelical waved.

October: the bare moorlands, sprent with gold and purple, bloomed anew under the spell of air crisped with the first frosts.

Probably a warm ocean current played on one side of the peninsula, while a cold one swept the other, but for scientific aspects of the question I cared little in my joy at being anew in a soft climate, amongst beautiful flowers and vivid life again.

Thus Theos inwardly raved, without any real comprehension of his own thoughts, but only stricken anew by a feverish passion of mingled love and hatred as he stared on the witching sorceress whose marvellous beauty was such wonder and torture to his eyes, .

That it was not the consular authority but the tribunitian power that he was rendering hateful and insupportable: which having been peaceable and reconciled to the patricians, was now about to be brought back anew to its former mischievous habits.