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RENEWAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
Synonyms:
reclamation; rehabilitation; renewal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("renewal" is a kind of...):
restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renewal"):
re-afforestation; reforestation (the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting)
urban renewal (the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of renewing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("renewal" is a kind of...):
repeating; repetition (the act of doing or performing again)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renewal"):
self-renewal (the act of renewing yourself (or itself))
Derivation:
renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Filling again by supplying what has been used up
Synonyms:
refilling; renewal; replacement; replenishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("renewal" is a kind of...):
filling (flow into something (as a container))
Context examples:
There, dimly outlined at the top window, I could see the shadow of a head, a woman’s head, gazing tensely, rigidly, out into the night, waiting with breathless suspense for the renewal of that interrupted message.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The talk was always such as I had already heard at the Pavilion: talk of politics, talk of the King’s health, talk of the Prince’s extravagance, of the expected renewal of war, of horse-racing, and of the ring.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Atypical Regeneration consists of reactive cellular proliferation, abnormal reproduction, or renewal of cells and tissues that have been damaged or destroyed due to injury, morbidity, or ordinary life processes and is characterized by nuclear/cytoplasmic atypia.
(Atypical Regeneration, NCI Thesaurus)
They did not like each other, and no renewal of acquaintance now could do any good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had too much self-possession, and she too little.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But since Mr. Rochester's visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals,—a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Long, long would it be ere Miss Crawford's name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such confidential intercourse as had been.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The carriage came: and Mr. Woodhouse, always the first object on such occasions, was carefully attended to his own by Mr. Knightley and Mr. Weston; but not all that either could say could prevent some renewal of alarm at the sight of the snow which had actually fallen, and the discovery of a much darker night than he had been prepared for.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood—my being longed for renewal—my soul thirsted for a pure draught.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He stirred his coffee round and round, he sipped it, he felt his chin softly with his grisly hand, he looked at the fire, he looked about the room, he gasped rather than smiled at me, he writhed and undulated about, in his deferential servility, he stirred and sipped again, but he left the renewal of the conversation to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
