Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-NEW'ED, pp.

Made new again; repaired; re-established; repeated; revived; renovated; regenerated.

RE-NEW'ED-LY, adv.

Again; once more.

RE-NEW'ED-NESS, n.

State of being renewed. – Hammond.

RE-NEW'ER, n.

One who renews. – Sherwood.

RE-NEW'ING, a.

That renews or regenerates; as, renewing grace. Tending or adapted to renovate.

RE-NEW'ING, n.

The act of making new; renewal.

RE-NEW'ING, ppr.

Making new again; repairing; re-establishing; repeating; reviving; renovating.

REN'I-FORM, a. [L. renes, the kidneys, and form.]

Having the form or shape of the kidneys. – Kirwan.

REN'I-TENCE, or REN'I-TEN-CY, n. [L. renitens, renitor, to resist; re and nitor, to struggle or strive.]

1. The resistance of a body to pressure; the effort of matter to resume the place or form from which it has been driven by the impulse of other matter; the effect of elasticity. – Quincy.
2. Moral resistance; reluctance. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. – Darwin.

REN'I-TENT, a.

Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force. – Ray.

REN'NET, n. [G. rinnen, to run, to curdle; D. runnen, ronnen, to curdle or coagulate; Sax. gerunnen, coagulated.]

The dried stomach or concreted milk found in the stomach of a sucking quadruped, particularly of the calf. It is also written Runnet, and this is the preferable orthography. – Encyc.

REN'NET, or REN'NET-ING, n.

A kind of apple. – Mortimer.

RE-NOUNCE', n. [renouns'.]

The declining to follow suit, when it can be done.

RE-NOUNCE, v.i. [renouns'.]

1. To declare a renunciation. He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. – Dryden. [Not in use.]
2. In cards, not to follow suit, when the person has a card of the same sort.

RE-NOUNCE', v.t. [renouns'; Fr. renoncer; L. renuncio; re and nuncio, to declare, from the root of nomen, name.]

1. To disown; to disclaim; to reject; as a title or claim; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to; as, to renounce a title to land or a claim to reward; to renounce all pretensions to applause.
2. To deny; to cast off; to reject; to disclaim; as an obligation or duty; as, to renounce allegiance.
3. To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; to forsake; as, to renounce the world and all its cares. Shak. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. – 2 Cor. iv.

RE-NOUN'CED, pp.

Disowned; denied; rejected; disclaimed.

RE-NOUNCE'MENT, n. [renouns'ment.]

The act of disdaining or rejecting; renunciation. – Shak.

RE-NOUN'CER, n.

One who disowns or disclaims.

RE-NOUN'CING, n.

The act of disowning, disclaiming, denying or rejecting.

RE-NOUN'CING, ppr.

Disowning; disclaiming; rejecting.

REN'O-VATE, v.t. [L. renovo; re and novo, to make new; novus, new.]

To renew; to restore to the first state, or to a good state, after decay, destruction or depravation. It is synonymous with renew, except in its fourth definition, supra.

REN'O-VA-TED, pp.

Renewed; made new, fresh or vigorous.

REN'O-VA-TING, ppr.

Renewing.

REN-O-VA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. renovatio.]

1. The act of renewing; a making new after decay, destruction or depravation; renewal; as, the renovation of the heart by grace. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. – Rambler.
2. A state of being renewed. – Bacon. Milton.

REN'O-VA-TOR, n.

One who, or that which renews. – Foster.