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Renewing

Renew \Re*new"\ (r?-n?"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reneved (-n?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renewing.] [Pref. re- + new. Cf. Renovate.]

  1. To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re[eum]stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.

    In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old [AE]son.
    --Shak.

  2. 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.

  3. To begin again; to recommence.

    The last great age . . . renews its finished course.
    --Dryden.

  4. To repeat; to go over again.

    The birds-their notes renew.
    --Milton.

  5. (Theol.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

    Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
    --Rom. xii. 2.

Wiktionary
renewing

n. A renewal. vb. (present participle of renew English)

WordNet
renewing

adj. tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine" [syn: restorative, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising]

Usage examples of "renewing".

The idea of renewing the attack never came into my head, and if it had I should have scornfully rejected it.

Querini had married her at last, but I did not think of renewing the acquaintance, for reasons which my reader cannot have forgotten if he recollects our quarrel when I had to dress her as an abbe.

I suspected that he had got wind of the liberties I had taken with pretty Sara, and did not want me to have an opportunity for renewing them.

The king was now reduced to the necessity of renewing his intercourse with his former ministers.

Stewart brought this subject again before the house, justifying himself for renewing the discussion on the ground that, since the last debate, Russia had actually interfered with our commerce on the Danube.

We feel, as we read these late, and even later words, that the lyric imagination was renewing itself in the incipient dissolution of other powers.

The Directory had no share in renewing the project of this memorable expedition, the result of which did not correspond with the grand views in which it had been conceived.

A hundred of these wretches who have libeled liberty by perpetrating crimes in her name must be effectually prevented from renewing their atrocities.

The First Consul then called me to him, and conversed a considerable time with me, renewing his protestations of goodwill towards me.

I feel the more pleasure in making this request as it affords me an opportunity of renewing the assurance of my regard for you.

In the month of December provisions began to diminish, and there was no possibility of renewing the supply.

Even on these occasions Napoleon seized the opportunity for renewing his claim to the title of Emperor.

The Marquis vo Derrivalle had spent a recent joyless month in Sherreen, transacting business and renewing his acquaintance ships at Court, whose elite members regarded him as a provincial booby.

In his present behaviour to herself, moreover, she had a fresh source of displeasure, for the inclination he soon testified of renewing those intentions which had marked the early part of their acquaintance could only serve, after what had since passed, to provoke her.

Hertfordshire, anxiously renewing them at all the turnpikes, and at the inns in Barnet and Hatfield, but without any success--no such people had been seen to pass through.