renascence
(rɪˈnæsəns)
Also 9 re- (riː-).
[See renascent and -ence.]
1. The process or fact of being born anew; rebirth, renewal, revival.
| 1727 Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead 187 The Souls have a kind of Renascence, or παλιγγενεσία, a new Life, a new World, and all things new. 1827 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 399 The perpetuity and continued re-nascence and spiritual life of Christ. 1912 E. St. V. Millay in F. Earle Lyric Yr. 185 Renascence... O God, I cried, give me new birth, And put me back upon the earth! 1973 Nature 20 July 184/3 The Serengeti Lion..has greater significance in that it reflects the renascence of animal study in Africa. |
2. = Renaissance 1.
| 1869 M. Arnold Cult. & An. 159 The great movement which goes by the name of the Renascence. [Note] I have ventured to give to the foreign word Renaissance an English form. 1874 Green Short Hist. vii. 390 Here, as elsewhere, the Renascence found vernacular literature all but dead. |
| transf. 1872 Morley Voltaire 5 The four-score volumes which he wrote, are the monument..of a new renascence. |