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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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"Renew" Quotes from Famous Books

... limpid waters. I have a hurt here in the heart of me no medicine of earth can cure; but because I know when the Lord comes this son of mine shall rise and I shall meet him and the old glad life renew in larger, richer, fuller measure; and because I know there is only the sound of the trump between me and that longed-for hour; that the door of heaven is always ajar and my Lord may come at any moment and bring ...

— Why I Preach the Second Coming • Isaac Massey Haldeman

... begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of ...

— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage

... rate, taught her the impolicy of plucking at the fruit before it is ripe. Her own internal reorganisation, moreover, occupies her sufficiently, and renders any active interference for the moment impracticable. Even were it otherwise, were Russia able and willing to renew the struggle in behalf of her co-religionists, the report of Prince Dolgorouki as to the amount of assistance likely to be derived from them, would hardly tend to encourage her in her disinterested undertaking. This envoy arrived at Belgrade in the latter part of 1859, while Prince Gortschakoff's ...

— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot

... that was sent against the same extent of trenches. The wind sent the cloud in a southwesterly direction, so that the deadly fumes got in their work along nearly five miles of the front. It is asserted that the cloud was 40 feet in height, and that the Germans continued to renew the supply of gas for four and a half hours. It had little effect wherever the British used their respirators, for they managed to stay in their positions without undue inconvenience. Those who suffered the most from the gas cloud were the infantry of the ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... We renew our request that correspondents, in referring to former answers or articles, will be kind enough to name the date of the paper and the page, or ...

— Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 • Various

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