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Renascence

American  
[ri-nas-uhns, -nay-suhns] / rɪˈnæs əns, -ˈneɪ səns /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)
  1. Renaissance.


renascence British  
/ -ˈneɪ- /

noun

  1. a variant of renaissance

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Renascence

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

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Here at Renascence, the level of control is not as punishing, but it is strict.

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

Renascence is the only program of its kind in the state.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2018

I was immediately struck by the amazing parallel with Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem Renascence.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Renascence dumb-shows were represented before monarchs, at their weddings and at their stately entrances into loyal cities.

From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

If a country's industries are experiencing a renascence, they would be importing more semi-finished goods and machinery.

From Economist ● Apr. 2, 2013

But everywhere they looked they saw twisted wreckage, bruised crops and foliage, substance for a long, necessarily patient renascence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The renascence of non-Christian religions and the spread of new ideologies necessitate a new approach in our evangelizing task.

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

The motion picture is the renascence of pantomime.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer

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