Renascence

[ ri-nas-uhns, -ney-suhns ]

/ rɪˈnæs əns, -ˈneɪ səns /

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noun (sometimes lowercase)

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Origin of Renascence

First recorded in 1720–30; renasc(ent) + -ence

Words nearby Renascence

renal tubule, renal vein, rename, Renan, Renard, Renascence, renascent, Renata, renature, Renault, rencontre

How to use Renascence in a sentence

All this peaceful beauty of Nature's renascence was nothing to her.
A German Pompadour|Marie Hay
But with the poetic taste of the Renascence Surrey inherited its wild and reckless energy.
History of the English People|John Richard Green
Renascence here means rebirth, and it is applied to the recovery of the entire Western world.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells
The physicist of the renascence abandoned scholastic speculation and began to study Nature in the language of experiment.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various

England is a country of great Renascence landed gentlefolk who have been unconsciously outgrown and overgrown.
Tono Bungay|H. G. Wells

British Dictionary definitions for Renascence

renascence

/ (rɪˈnæsəns, -ˈneɪ-) /

noun

a variant of renaissance

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