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RENEWING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to impart new life and vigor to
Example:
the renewing warmth of the sunshine
Synonyms:
renewing; restorative; revitalising; revitalizing; reviving
Classified under:
Similar:
invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb renew
Context examples:
After making every possible inquiry on that side London, Colonel F. came on into Hertfordshire, anxiously renewing them at all the turnpikes, and at the inns in Barnet and Hatfield, but without any success—no such people had been seen to pass through.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I had the pleasure, on this occasion, of renewing the acquaintance of Master Micawber, whom I found a promising boy of about twelve or thirteen, very subject to that restlessness of limb which is not an unfrequent phenomenon in youths of his age.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Tell your aunt, little Emma, that she ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances, and that if she were not wrong before, she is now.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In his present behaviour to herself, moreover, she had a fresh source of displeasure, for the inclination he soon testified of renewing those intentions which had marked the early part of their acquaintance could only serve, after what had since passed, to provoke her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
You may guess, therefore, that the news he heard from his friend could not be very agreeable, and you may guess what it produced; the resolution of coming back to Bath as soon as possible, and of fixing himself here for a time, with the view of renewing his former acquaintance, and recovering such a footing in the family as might give him the means of ascertaining the degree of his danger, and of circumventing the lady if he found it material.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The idea of being again surrounded by those honest faces, shining welcome on me; of renewing the peacefulness of the sweet Sunday morning, when the bells were ringing, the stones dropping in the water, and the shadowy ships breaking through the mist; of roaming up and down with little Em'ly, telling her my troubles, and finding charms against them in the shells and pebbles on the beach; made a calm in my heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
