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noun

Renascence n.

The state of being renascent. "Read the Phoenix, and see how the single image of renascence is varied."

Same as Renaissance. "The Renascence... which in art, in literature, and in physics, produced such splendid fruits."

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Etymology of 'Renascence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Renascence" Quotes from Famous Books

... administrative machinery, as it exists, be taken for granted; unless it shows those powers of adaptation and growth which show it to be alive and not dead, it too must be scrapped and rejected; new wine is fatal to old skins. Education must regain once more what she possessed at the time of the Renascence—the power of direction; she must be mistress of ...

— Cambridge Essays on Education • Various

... symbolizes the Provencal renascence; Calendau typifies the modern Provencal people, rising to an ideal life and great achievements through the memory of their traditions, and this ideal, this memory, are personified in the person of the ...

— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer

... Ganendra had just got a drama written by Pandit Tarkaratna and was having it staged in the house. His enthusiasm for literature and the fine arts knew no bounds. He was the centre of the group who seem to have been almost consciously striving to bring about from every side the renascence which we see to-day. A pronounced nationalism in dress, literature, music, art and the drama had awakened in and around him. He was a keen student of the history of different countries and had begun but could not complete a historical work ...

— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore

Words linked to "Renascence" : revivification, rebirth, High Renaissance, nativity, transmigration, Italian Renaissance, resurgence, birth, cycle of rebirth, revitalization, nascency