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English Dictionary: renascence by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Renascence
n
  1. the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
    Synonym(s): Renaissance, Renascence
  2. a second or new birth
    Synonym(s): reincarnation, rebirth, renascence
  3. the revival of learning and culture
    Synonym(s): rebirth, Renaissance, Renascence
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Renascence \Re*nas"cence\ (r?-n?s"sens), n. [See {Renascent},
      and cf. {Renaissance}.]
      1. The state of being renascent.
  
                     Read the Ph[?]nix, and see how the single image of
                     renascence is varied.                        --Coleridge.
  
      2. Same as {Renaissance}.
  
                     The Renascence . . . which in art, in literature,
                     and in physics, produced such splendid fruits. --M.
                                                                              Arnold.
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