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verb

Renew v. t. (past & past part. reneved; pres. part. renewing)

To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to reestablish; to recreate; to rebuild. "In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Aeson."

Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.

To begin again; to recommence. "The last great age... renews its finished course."

To repeat; to go over again. "The birds-their notes renew."

(Theol.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Renew v. i. To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.

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Etymology of 'Renewing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Renewing" Quotes from Famous Books

... say, "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12: 2). They also say that we should be "conformed to the image of his Son" (Rom. 8: 29). We have here two sorts of conformity, one of which is condemned and the other approved. Much is said by some classes of religious professors about worldly conformity, while little ...

— Heart Talks • Charles Wesley Naylor

... yer jaw!" Basil proclaimed comprehensively. Then, renewing his explanation to Kennedy, "I kin see that I don't purvide fur my fambly ez I ought ter do, through hatin' work and lovin' to ...

— The Christmas Miracle - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your souls, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect ...

— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... light." [Footnote: Le Roy a Frontenac, 12 Mai, 1678.] Exhortation and warning were vain alike. The first ships which returned that year from Canada brought a series of despatches from the intendant, renewing all his charges more bitterly than before. The minister, out of patience, replied by berating him without mercy. "You may rest assured," he concludes, "that, did it not appear by your later despatches that the letters you have received have begun to make you understand that you have forgotten ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

... features of Rome, the human side of it appealed to me. There was something congenial in the Romans, and, indeed, in the Italians generally, so that I seemed to be renewing my acquaintance with people whom I had partly forgotten. I picked up the conversational language with unusual ease, perhaps owing to the drilling in Latin which my father had given me; and I liked the easy, objectless ways ...

— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne

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