renascent

[ ri-nas-uhnt, -ney-suhnt ]

adjective
  1. being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.

Origin of renascent

1
1720–30; <Latin renāscent- (stem of renāscēns), present participle of renāscī.See Renaissance, -ent

Words Nearby renascent

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How to use renascent in a sentence

  • The film closes on a George Valentin renascent, tap-dancing into the talkies with his beloved on his arm.

  • renascent Stoicism had three functions in the rise of the modern world.

    The Enchiridion | Epictetus
  • It was the old purity that returned, the deathless beauty, the ever-renascent life, the eternal consecrated and immortal youth.

    The Octopus | Frank Norris
  • The faint, renascent glamour which had begun to attach to literature and social life disappeared.

    Lady Rose's Daughter | Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • At the sound of it the primeval lover, newly renascent in Mr. Strumley's breast, cowed before the power of genitorial insistency.

    Golden Stories | Various

British Dictionary definitions for renascent

renascent

/ (rɪˈnæsənt, -ˈneɪ-) /


adjective
  1. becoming active or vigorous again; reviving: renascent nationalism

Origin of renascent

1
C18: from Latin renascī to be born again

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