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renascent

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

adjective

  1. being reborn; springing again into being or vigor:

    a renascent interest in Henry James.



renascent

/ -ˈneɪ-; rɪˈnæsənt /

adjective

  1. becoming active or vigorous again; reviving

    renascent nationalism

“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of renascent1

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

Origin of renascent1

C18: from Latin renascī to be born again
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Example Sentences

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.

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

The faint, renascent glamour which had begun to attach to literature and social life disappeared.

At the sound of it the primeval lover, newly renascent in Mr. Strumley's breast, cowed before the power of genitorial insistency.

It was bound, sooner or later, to yield to the renascent impulse of democracy inherent in Florentine institutions.

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