renascent

[ ri-nas-uhnt, -ney-suhnt ]

adjective

1. being reborn; springing again into being or vigor:

   a renascent interest in Henry James.

renascent

/ -ˈneɪ-; rɪˈnæsənt /

adjective

1. becoming active or vigorous again; reviving

   renascent nationalism

Word History and Origins

Origin of renascent¹

1720–30; < Latin renāscent- (stem of renāscēns ), present participle of renāscī. See Renaissance, -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of renascent¹

C18: from Latin renascī to be born again

Example Sentences

The film closes on a George Valentin renascent, tap-dancing into the talkies with his beloved on his arm.

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Renascent Stoicism had three functions in the rise of the modern world.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the old purity that returned, the deathless beauty, the ever-renascent life, the eternal consecrated and immortal youth.

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The faint, renascent glamour which had begun to attach to literature and social life disappeared.

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At the sound of it the primeval lover, newly renascent in Mr. Strumley's breast, cowed before the power of genitorial insistency.

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It was bound, sooner or later, to yield to the renascent impulse of democracy inherent in Florentine institutions.

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