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The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster.

of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle.

New birth; renewal. A continued regenesis of dissenting sects. H. Spenser.

A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.

Renewal of a lease.

Renewal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R. Browning.

ng or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reëstablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war. Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration. Dryden.

A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor. [Obs.]

Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recaling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life. In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.

a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.