Renascence
noun
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Renascence
American
[ri-nas-uhns, -ney-suhns]
/ rɪˈnæs əns, -ˈneɪ səns /
noun
(sometimes lowercase)
renascence
British
/ -ˈneɪ-, rɪˈnæsəns /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Renascence
First recorded in 1720–30; renasc(ent) + -ence
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Renascence is a private, tax exempt program, operating from donations.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
That’s why programs such as Renascence are so important, said Guy Renfro, an assistant professor of behavioral science at Faulkner University.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
A full house at Renascence is 14 men.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
At 19 she had already written Renascence, a long poem on cosmic possibilities that put contemporary poetry-scouts in a dither of great expectations.
From Time Magazine Archive
This conception of a needed Renascence obsessed him more and more, and the persuasion, deeply felt if indistinctly apprehended, that somewhere in such an effort there was a part for him to play....
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
If a country's industries are experiencing a renascence, they would be importing more semi-finished goods and machinery.
From Economist ● Apr. 2, 2013
This renascence in church architecture was chronicled by Princeton-educated Architect G. E. Kidder Smith, 51, who spent the past five successive summers touring Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Women remember the late Eugenie Montijo as a certain Empress of France who wore a tilted wren's-nest hat which achieved a brief renascence in the '30s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may expect a renascence of beauty worthy to rank with the Romantic Revival born of the French wars....'
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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